The question is not whether standards should change. It is whether we are measuring the right things to uphold them

As IT organizations embrace AI, data center facilities and colocation providers need to plan to deploy the supporting infrastructure, despite many uncertainties

Water cold plates still lead DLC adoption — but more enterprise operators are considering dielectric cold plates than last year

Current geopolitical tensions are eroding some European organizations’ confidence in the security of hyperscalers; however, moving away from them entirely is not practically feasible

Ineffective communication in a data center can compromise uptime, but it can be avoided.

Data center owners are as committed to Tier III and Tier IV designs as ever, but more will be required to share power, adding complexity and possibly risk

Quantum computing progress is slow, and press releases often fail to convey the amount of work required to make practical quantum computers a reality

The European Commission will soon publish its delegated report, recommending a data center rating scheme and performance standards

Dedicated AI infrastructure helps ensure data is controlled, compliant and secure, while models remain accurate and differentiated. But is it cost effective?

Power grids are under stress, struggling to meet future demand and increasingly prone to outages - data centers will have to contribute

Enterprises have various options on how and where to deploy their AI training and inference workloads

As new capacity is concentrated in super-sized data centers and legacy facilities continue to operate in large numbers, market trends become more difficult to read

Taking the anxiety out of AI

Two-phase immersion was expected to revolutionize data center cooling, but proved difficult to implement. Is interest peaking again?

Managers need to understand the nature of the threat and the defense options to protect their critical environments

Can utility providers give data center operators more information about their substations?

Preliminary calculations by Uptime Intelligence suggest the initial impact of generative AI on global data center power use is low — but it will rise quickly as adoption increases

Air-assisted direct liquid cooling systems offer trade-offs that make them attractive to operators

Germany’s Energy Efficiency Act, with its demands for a PUE of 1.2, has reignited a debate: can a data center be both highly available and highly efficient?

Executives have set bold sustainability claims - a painful and expensive correction is coming

For the data center market to achieve its projected growth trajectory, it must continue to adopt power-intensive next-generation IT technologies

Growing European data demand is giving rise to increased construction of data center facilities – the Nordic region is emerging as a popular location for this

The data center industry is particularly exposed to the threats posed by current geopolitical trajectories

Organizations can cut cloud carbon emissions and costs by migrating workloads to different regions, if users can tolerate extra latency

Geomagnetic storms can cause disruption and damage, yet few assess the risk or implement protections

Support is split along geographic lines

And can you trust what your business partners say?

Data center operators are squeezed between increasingly power-hungry servers and the demands of sustainability