UII RESEARCH AGENDA | UPDATED AUGUST 2024

Intelligence Update

Uptime Intelligence Research Agenda

The latest Uptime Intelligence research agenda includes a list all published and planned reports from January 2024 to October 2024, and is focused on Uptime Intelligence primary coverage areas: 1) power generation, distribution, energy storage; 2) data center management software (automation, AI); 3) sustainability, energy efficiency; 4) silicon and systems; 5) resiliency: outages, topology, climate risks; 6) cooling and heat rejection; 7) staffing and skills; 8) security and human risk 
 

January 2024

Tools to improve power use by IT are underused

Tracking of IT equipment varies widely and often fall short

EU’s EED: proposed reporting revisions

Five data center predictions for 2024

How server power management works

Colocation and public cloud growth masks enterprise expansion

Resiliency versus low PUE: regulators a catalyst for innovation

What does embedded carbon of IT really represent?

AI startups innovate in cooling and IT operations

Uptime’s predictions 2022 to 2024 — relevant and actionable?

Air-assisted direct liquid cooling

 

February 2024

Most operators plan to spend more on rising demand

Critical role for EU data center code of conduct

The role of AI in digital infrastructure management

Managing server performance for power: a missed opportunity

EU battery regulations: what do the new rules mean?

Long shifts in data centers — time to reconsider?

UK prepares resiliency, cybersecurity legislation for colocation

 

March 2024

Annual outage analysis 2024

Ineffective cyber policies increase corporate risk

Data collection for IT metrics: is the industry ready?

Capacity expands rapidly, but complexity is challenging

Sustainability data exchange in colo and cloud contracts

Cloud outage insurance: assessing policy option

US mandates crypto energy reporting: will data centers be next?

Generative AI and global power consumption: high, but not that high

Confusion reigns over EED May 15 reporting deadline 

EED delegated regulation is finally final

 

April 2024

Sustainability strategies face greater pressure in 2024

Tutorial 1: Scoping data center cybersecurity

Equipment prices rise despite supply chain improvements

Increased requirements for Scope 3 reporting and energy certificates

Underwater data centers: lessons from the deep

Next-gen refrigerants: another environmental plight?

Time to collaborate on contracts for sustainability

OT protection — is air-gapping the answer?

The threat to data center security from state-sponsored hackers

Scope 3 accounting: once is not enough

Uncertain power demand figures will lead to poor decisions

DLC momentum rises, but operators remain cautious

Maturity model for sustainability downplays site-level resiliency

 

May 2024

The impact of AI on data center operations (Part I)

Data center sustainability standards (updated)

Uptime Institute Cooling Systems Survey 2024: Direct liquid cooling

A deep dive into certificates for carbon-free energy

Capacity planning for liquid-cooled data centers

Operators are pushing net-zero targets beyond 2030

Anatomy of a thermal runaway

Why DC racks are still rarely used outside of hyperscalers

Is this air cooling's last gasp?

High-impact outages highlight ongoing resiliency challenges

iPDUs: a critical step for next generation efficiency

Complexity versus cybersecurity in the data center

 

June 2024

The long journey to concrete and steel decarbonization

Tutorial 2: Identifying and addressing data center cybersecurity threats

Operators boost cybersecurity efforts, but more work is needed

Effective EOPs: how cognitive science can help

EED reporting deadlines are clarified

Ignore Li-ion fire risks at your peril

Mitigating OT risk from third-party requests

Air cooling's third win

DCIM past and present: what's changed?

Immersion fluids hold promise, but fire risk a concern

Targeted recruitment could widen the talent pool

 

July 2024

Using optimization software for cooling and capacity gains

Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2024

Tutorial 3: Effective data center governance for cybersecurity

Interest in two-phase cooling warms up

European legislation prompts greater environmental action

Six AI infrastructure conundrums

Europe taxes waste heat recovery: can data centers make it work?

Global IT disruption highlights concentration, third-party risk

Digital EOPs: the appliance of science

Water cold plates take a big lead in the small world of DLC

 

August 2024

Tutorial 4: Roles and responsibilities in data center cybersecurity governance

Water is a local issue: site selection and facility design

Hydrogen in data centers: an introduction

Hardware for AI: what makes it different?

Sustainability teams: key players and crucial collaborations

Shaky start for Europe’s EED legislation

Global IT outages raise the question: who bears responsibility?

Grid growth and decarbonization: an unhappy couple

Building trust: working with AI-based tools

Rack densification: is it really happening this time?

UPS component failures: what are the leading issues?

Nature laws to play key role in planning and building facilities

 

September 2024

Considerations of raised supply air temperatures

Data center management and control (DCM-C)

Heat reuse engineering

The impact of AI on data center operations (Part 2)

Corporate and facility strategies for water use (Part 2)

Tutorial 5: Cyberwsecurity risk management

Collecting IT power metrics: using software

Electrical implications of high-density (an introduction)

AI and worker productivity: protecting your staff from Solow paradox

Power issues and cyberattacks: how are they connected?

Who is using natural gas, and why?

Venue selection: the importance of location for AI training

Netherlands EED reporting forms: completely worthless

UPS failure data (MCIM)

A primer on SMR

Is the data center Scope 3 focus headed in the wrong direction?

 

October 2024

Water: cooling system selection (Part 3)

Hydrogen power and data centers (Part 2)

Tutorial 6: Cybersecurity policies and procedures

A sustainable data center in the AI era

Collecting IT power metrics (Part 3)

How mission critical does AI need to be?

The business side of heat recapture

Off-grid data centers

The coming of quantum usefulness

Is inferencing a killer app for the edge?

Would you run your manufacturing facility at 30% capacity?

Global outage follow-up

Annual survey 2024: vendors report fewer delays in 2024

(Titles, dates and descriptions are subject to change. Further details and extra reports and updates will be added to further iterations of this sheet as needed and will be available closer to the date of publication.)

 

 

About the Author

Douglas Donnellan

Douglas Donnellan

Douglas is a Research Associate at Uptime Institute covering sustainability in data centers. His background includes environmental research and communications, with a strong focus on education.