By raising debt, building data centers and using colos, neoclouds shield hyperscalers from the financial and technological shocks of the AI boom. They share in the upside if demand grows, but are burdened with stranded assets if it stalls.
French operators must consider three regulatory sustainability reporting frameworks and a policy for tax incentives. A proposed law will fast-track facilities of national interest, potentially overriding local environmental protections.
Sodium-ion batteries promised a third battery option to lead-acid and lithium-ion batteries. The closure of Natron Energy means operators will need to look elsewhere.
Liquid-cooled colocation capacity remains niche, but demand is likely to grow. Colocation providers planning capacity for DLC need to address novel questions about individual tenant needs, operations and SLAs.
This report highlights results from vendor, consultant and product supplier respondents to the Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2025. It provides an insight into the spending strategies, technology adoption and issues facing their customer.
This report provides a regional view of the results from the Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2025 and highlights some of the different challenges and strategies of data center owners and operators across the globe.
In Northern Virginia and Ireland, simultaneous responses by data centers to fluctuations on the grid have come close to causing a blackout. Transmission system operators are responding with new requirements on large demand loads.
The European Commission is looking to revise the technical criteria for data centers under its taxonomy for financial sustainability to define what qualifies a data center as being environmentally sustainable.
AWS has recently cut prices on a range of GPU-backed instances. These price reductions make it harder to justify an investment in dedicated AI infrastructure.
The European Commission's proposed data center rating and labeling scheme will require operators to report a range of operational data. This report details Uptime's official response to the proposals.
The terms “retail” and “wholesale” colocation not only describe different types of colocation customers, but also how providers price and package their products, and the extent to which customers can specify their requirements.
The EU is stepping up efforts to implement the Energy Efficiency Directive for data centers by announcing a related energy efficiency package, due to be released in Q1 2026.
Serverless container services enable rapid, per-second scalability, which is ideal for AI inference. However, inconsistent and opaque pricing metrics hinder comparisons. This pricing tool compares the cost of services across providers.
Serverless container services enable rapid scalability, which is ideal for AI inference. However, inconsistent and opaque pricing metrics hinder comparisons. This report uses machine learning to derive clear guidance by means of decision trees.
Although the data center industry is mostly aware of the EU’s Energy Efficiency Directive, Uptime Intelligence’s research suggests widespread confusion on specific components of the directive — and its implementation status.
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