The Uptime Intelligence research agenda includes a list of published and planned research reports for 2026, and is focused on Uptime Intelligence primary coverage areas: 1) power generation, distribution, energy storage; 2) data center management software; 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.
 

October 2025

Data center labels: a very public appraisal

Staffing crisis persists as colos struggle to retain junior operators

Battery options fizzle as sodium-ion startup shuts

French data center policies affecting sustainability

Neoclouds: AI's shock absorbers

Why are operators collecting less sustainability data?

Key players: cloud control and the colo advantage

AI's growth calls for useful IT efficiency metrics

Mapping PUE trends by data center region, age and size

Liquid-to-air eases DLC rollout, but mind the setpoints

AI and cooling: toward more automation

Emerging technology: neuromorphic computing

AWS outage: what are the lessons for enterprises?

Emerging technology: superconductivity in the facility

AI uncertainty: More adoption, more caution

AI uncertainty: Bubble trouble brewing

November 2025

Scope 2 Guidance update: impact on climate disclosure

How financial institutions are using AI and cloud today 

South Korean data center fire sparks a stark reminder

What the Azure outage revealed about  internet fragility

Fewer operators cite sustainability as DLC driver

China: centralized rules for data center efficiency

Integrated cold plates will help realize free cooling

AI in facility operations: three applications to watch

Investments signal a heated liquid cooling race

EU makes more cuts to environmental reporting

EU label and performance value proposals move ahead

Emerging tech 3: enhanced geothermal

December 2025

Supply chains show signs of stability, but delays persist

Enterprise and colo spending strategies for 2026 vary

Do data centers reserve too much grid power?

Validating the use of high-density DLC

Gen AI power consumption set to double in 2026

AI in data: sorting reality from hallucination

Runaway success of Li-ion raises bar for battery innovators

Late change reinstates some EU reporting rules

Japan joins the push for data center regulation

Many giant data center projects advance, despite risks

Survey highlights industry staffing crisis

Uptime Intelligence predictions for 2025 re-examined

What makes a data center DGX-Ready?

Data centers in space: sky high costs, astronomical challenges?

January 2026

Five data center predictions for 2026

Giant data center power plans reach extreme levels

Nvidia's vision: digital twins and automated facilities

How scale and occupancy shape data center and colo economics

Supply chain exploits: the blind spots operators need to address

Coolant distribution units can complicate commissioning

What cloud sovereignty really means

EU power providers urged to protect grids from data centers

As emissions soar, operators look to carbon capture

Liquid cooling will not outgrow its high-density niche

Final date for EED rating label confirmed

New power architectures to reshape data center design

Enterprises begin to demand returns from generative AI

February 2026

As capacity demands surge, operators rethink cloud strategies

AI automation moves from pilots to early production

Next-gen GPUs may not need chillers - but data centers do

Microsoft's Community-First Plan needs more work

Rising cost of traditional IT: temporary spike or long-term shift?

Ireland's new grid rules signal shift in data center roles

Musk's moonshot project faces astronomical challenges

Why inference will become a ubiquitous IT workload

The struggle between AI and net-zero is becoming visible

France sets strict PUE and WUE thresholds as tax incentive

Resiliency will be re-examined, but few will compromise

Digital twins and DCIM: why data quality must come first

Regulations for behind-the-meter power are emerging

Campaigners against data centers are winning

March 2026

IT power utilization thresholds can undermine server efficiency

Mandated off-grid power could derail cloud expansion

Operators are reassessing net zero ambitions

Is modular/prefab making a comeback?

Big AI training data centers are being bult to concurrent maintainability standards

Energy Management Systems - an important EED milestone

EU Commission publishes final draft delegated regulation 1 amendments

Flexible load connections coming to a TSO near you

(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.)