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Profile picture for user trahkonen Dr. Tomas Rahkonen
Considerations of raised supply air temperatures

Increasing supply air temperature is gaining interest as an approach to potentially save data center energy. However, savings will not be universally possible and understanding its potential involves a complex multivariable analysis.

Briefing Reports 18 min read
Profile picture for user jdietrich Jay Dietrich
Water is a local issue: site selection and facility design

Water use has become a critical element of a sustainability strategy. It is a location-specific issue: local climate and resources and the data center design will determine the water use profile of the facility.

Briefing Reports 21 min read
Profile picture for user JDavis Jacqueline Davis
Water cold plates lead in the small, but growing, world of DLC

The transition to direct liquid cooling has been a slow process. Today, operators work with water cold plates more than any other type of cooling, but this might change once a wider range of DLC types become available.

Intelligence Updates 5 min read
Profile picture for user alawrence Andy Lawrence
Six AI infrastructure conundrums

Although there is still uncertainty around the rate of AI adoption, many organizations are pushing ahead to avoid being left behind. However, behind this enthusiasm, there are six issues that operators face when hosting AI.

Intelligence Updates 10 min read
Profile picture for user jobrien John O'Brien
Using optimization software for cooling and capacity gains

Many data centers struggle to achieve maximum capacity and optimal cooling, resulting in troublesome hot spots. Advances in cooling optimization software have addressed this complexity and could be the answer.

Briefing Reports 9 min read
Profile picture for user dbizo Daniel Bizo
Interest in two-phase cooling warms up

Two-phase immersion was expected to revolutionize data center cooling but proved difficult to implement. With escalating silicon thermal power, two-phase is gaining substantial interest again, just in a different form: direct-to-chip liquid cooling.

Intelligence Updates 6 min read
Profile picture for user dbizo Daniel Bizo
Immersion fluids hold promise, but fire risk a concern

There are no commonly accepted best practices or standards to refer to when assessing the fire hazard that single-phase immersion fluids pose in a data center application and the appropriate measures against them.

Intelligence Updates 6 min read
Profile picture for user jgeorge Jabari Williams-George Profile picture for user dbizo Daniel Bizo
Air cooling’s third wind

This report discusses recent innovations in air cooling, such as advanced evaporative cooling methods, AI-driven facility management and cutting-edge server heat sinks.

Intelligence Updates 8 min read
Profile picture for user asbarra Anthony Sbarra Profile picture for user lwilliams Laurie Williams
Uptime Institute Cooling Systems Survey 2024: Direct liquid cooling

Direct liquid cooling (DLC) remains a hot topic for most data center organizations, and results from the Uptime Institute 2024 Cooling Systems Survey reveal why.

Data Reports 5 min read
Profile picture for user jgeorge Jabari Williams-George Profile picture for user JDavis Jacqueline Davis
Is this air cooling’s last gasp?

Alongside continued developments in liquid cooling, there are reports of air-cooled data centers that achieve standout levels of efficiency. Uptime explores the factors that combine to enable exceptional efficiency in air cooling.

Intelligence Updates 6 min read
Profile picture for user jgeorge Jabari Williams-George Profile picture for user dbizo Daniel Bizo
Capacity planning for liquid-cooled data centers

It is becoming a near certainty that many facility operators will use direct liquid cooling within a few years. This raises a number of engineering questions, one of which is how to size coolant distribution units.

Intelligence Updates 8 min read
Profile picture for user asbarra Anthony Sbarra
Uptime Institute 2024 Cooling Systems Survey [Results and Crosstab files]

The May 2024 Uptime Institute Cooling Systems Survey explores the adoption, usage, and benefits of various cooling systems in the data center. The attached data files below provide full results of the survey, including data cuts based on…

Data Assets
Profile picture for user JDavis Jacqueline Davis
Underwater data centers: lessons from the deep

Underwater data centers promise to be both economical and sustainable. The prerequisite densification of infrastructure and unmanned operations may only suit specific workloads, but lessons learned under water may influence land facilities.

Briefing Reports 12 min read
Profile picture for user ddonnellan Douglas Donnellan
DLC momentum rises, but operators remain cautious

Adoption of direct liquid cooling (DLC) continues to grow slowly, according to recent Uptime research. However, more operators are considering it for future use due to mounting thermal management and sustainability challenges.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Profile picture for user dbizo Daniel Bizo Profile picture for user JDavis Jacqueline Davis
Next-gen refrigerants: another environmental plight?

Refrigeration’s history of progress is also a history of environmental concern. Whenever new refrigerants solve a problem, they create further crises down the line — and now history appears to be repeating itself.

Intelligence Updates 7 min read