Data center builders who need power must navigate changing rules, unpredictable demands — and be prepared to trade.
The European Commission aims to ease climate risk reporting by removing mid-cap operators from CSRD's scope and delaying reports till 2028. But under current rules, 2025 reports are required and foreign-owned mid-cap operators stay covered.
Quantum computing progress is slow; press releases often fail to convey the work required to make practical quantum computers a reality. Data center operators do not need to worry about quantum computing right now.
Customers are responsible for architecting resiliency into their cloud apps. However, the cloud's consumption model means resiliency comes at a price. Enterprises must evaluate availability against cost before building on the cloud.
Results from the Uptime Institute Sustainability and Climate Change Survey 2024 reveal how operators navigate climate change risks while expanding efforts to improve their environmental footprint.
How far can we go with air? Uptime experts discuss and answer questions on cooling strategies and debate the challenges and trade-offs with efficiency and costs. Please watch this latest entry in the Uptime Intelligence Client Webinar series. The ser...
Uptime Institute provided three documents to the EU Commission and their consultants, Ernest and Young and Borderstep, in response to two surveys. The surveys are intended to gather data to facilitate the development of a data center labeling/rating ...
Major and damaging publicly reported outages are increasingly likely to be due to a deliberate attack — whether cyber or physical, according to Uptime Intelligence public outage data for 2024.
Critics argue that data center water use is excessive and poorly managed. Operators should select a cooling system to fit the local climate and available water supply, explaining water use within the context of local conditions.
Chinese large language model DeepSeek has shown that state of the art generative AI capability may be possible at a fraction of the cost previously thought.
High-end AI systems receive the bulk of the industry’s attention, but organizations looking for the best training infrastructure implementation have choices. Getting it right, however, may take a concerted effort.
Data shows that cuts to workforce initiatives and mentorships had little effect on the proportion of new hires in 2024. Owners and operators can consider reassessing and restructuring these programs.
The high capital and operating costs of infrastructure for AI mean an outage can have a significant financial impact due to lost training hours
The US’ SEC has withdrawn requirements for climate risk reporting, and the EU is revising its rules. Despite this, strong drivers remain for operators to measure their environmental impact
Scalability and cost efficiency are the top reasons enterprises migrate to the cloud, but scalability issues due to application design flaws can lead to spiralling costs — and some workload repatriation to on-premises facilities
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