The Uptime Intelligence research agenda includes a list of published and planned research reports for 2025, 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.
 

January 2025

Five data center predictions for 2025

Enterprise and colocation operators face rising costs in 2025

Are data centers on top of NIS 2 cyber compliance?

Labor shortages put some large campuses at risk of outages

Sweat dedicated GPU clusters to beat cloud on cost

AI embraces liquid cooling, but enterprise IT is slow to follow

Uptime's predictions for 2025: an overview

UNEP specs for IT equipment efficiency: more work required

How AWS’s own silicon and software deliver cloud scalability

IT efficiency: an untapped power resource

Data center management software: the evolving role of DCIM

AI supremacy: how will the  new US GPU export controls work?

Neoclouds: a cost-effective AI infrastructure alternative

More scrutiny and obligations as governments back data centers

February 2025

Low-carbon hydrogen: not yet viable as primary power source

Cloud repatriation is overstated

Build resilient apps: do not rely solely on cloud infrastructure

AI adds to rising demand for capacity

AI and cooling: methods and capacities

Cloud a viable choice amidst uncertain AI returns

US state drafts plan for data center regulations

AI infrastructure ambitions will be cut down to size

The DeepSeek paradox: more efficiency, more infrastructure?

EED delegated report due early May — what's the rush?

Remaining EED reporting deficiencies need immediate attention

Agentic AI shows promise — but also carries risk

Small modular reactors: building critical mass

Outage data shows cloud apps must be designed for failure

March 2025

Are data centers to blame for power quality issues?

Deconstructing NIMBY: how to avoid planning conflicts

Hardware for AI: options and directions

AI load and chiller systems: key considerations

Cloud and cost savings depend on application design

Should operators continue climate risk reporting?

The operational cost of AI training failures

Are data center workplace initiatives effective?

Density choices for AI training are increasingly complex

DeepSeek government bans: implications for operators

EU climate reporting: simplification is not a simple matter

Water use is site specific — do not generalize

Public outages in 2024

AI cooling (part 3)

AI reasoning and its impact in infrastructure

Measuring IT equipment capacity: practical methodologies

Cloud availability versus cost

April 2025

Annual outage analysis 2025: keynote report

Uptime Institute Data Center Resiliency Survey 2025: field report

Uptime Institute Data Center Resiliency Survey 2025: an overview

Uptime Institute Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Survey 2025: field report

Uptime Institute Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Survey 2025: an overview

Water: Developing an effective water management strategy (part 3)

Backup generators will be expected to do more

What is the average GPU utilization (and why)?

What are digital twins, and why should data centers care?

A net zero data center is not a sustainable data center

Reporting server and storage ICT capacity: a methodology

AI-ready data center designs (part 1)

Seven fallacies of data center cybersecurity

Best practice for designing formal mentorships

DLC in colocations: best practices

Big build out stunted by delays and uncertainty

How data centers affect power quality for others on the grid

Data center versus the people

DCM-C software: Facility Ops product guide

EU AI announcements

May 2025

Uptime Institute Data Center Cooling and Heat Rejection Survey 2025: field report

AI-ready data center designs (part 2)

Who’s in charge of IT/OT security?

Energy Management Systems: are you ready?

Everything that burns: data centers consider all power options

Internet resiliency: what do data center operators need to know?

June 2025

Uptime Institute Data Center Cooling and Heat Rejection Survey 2025: an overview

Resiliency versus sustainability: engine generators and alternatives

July 2025

Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2025: keynote report

Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2025: an overview

August 2025

Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2025: supplier view

Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2025: regional view

September 2025

Uptime Institute Data Center Cybersecurity Survey 2025: field report

Uptime Institute Data Center Cybersecurity Survey 2025: an overview

Uptime Institute Data Center Staffing and Recruitment Survey 2025: field report

Uptime Institute Data Center Staffing and Recruitment Survey 2025: an overview

October 2025

Uptime Institute Data Center IT and Power Efficiency Survey 2025: field report

Uptime Institute Data Center IT and Power Efficiency Survey 2025: an overview

November 2025

Uptime Institute Data Center Spending and Supply Chain Survey 2025: field report

Uptime Institute Data Center Spending and Supply Chain Survey 2025: an overview

December 2025

Uptime Institute Capacity Trends and Cloud Survey 2025: field report

Uptime Institute Capacity Trends and Cloud Survey 2025: an overview

January 2026

Five data center predictions for 2026: keynote report

Five data center predictions for 2026: an overview

Uptime Institute Sustainability and Climate Change Survey 2025: field report

Uptime Institute Sustainability and Climate Change Survey 2025: an overview

(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.)