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

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

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

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

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

Support is split along geographic lines

The Ukraine conflict and associated political and economic fallout will have short- and long-term effects on the infrastructure industry

Bitcoin’s energy use is controversial, but that is not the whole story

Extreme weather and investor and regulator pressures have encouraged more data center operators to reevaluate their resiliency

OVHcloud was known as a bold innovator. When the cause of the SBG2 fire in Strasbourg is finally revealed, this may be a factor

Power problems are no longer the top cause of outages

When we emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, we will still have global warming to contend with

Most data center managers accept the scientific consensus, but a significant minority — primarily in the US — do not.

PUE is a simple metric, but now we've reached levels of efficiency where it could become counter-productive

Even though the cloud offers resiliency, enterprise users are still shifting gradually from N+1 to N+2

It's not that simple. Here are the details...

Uptime's global survey reveals some global trends

When cloud applications suddenly become important, they don't magically get more reliable

Although the system is resilient, there have been some alarming staff shortages

So far the industry has coped well - but there are some concerns for the future

Power usage effectiveness (PUE) improved rapidly at first. Now it has hit a plateau

We've heard that outages are getting more serious. But why are they also getting longer?

Consumer giants are slurping customer data. Are tech players doing the same thing with their DCIM services?

We are still years from the tipping point when everything goes to the cloud

Public cloud operators and the core financial services industries are far apart in what they expect from each other.

Is it economic for large companies to use public cloud? Or does private cloud hold the answers?

When a service goes down, the impact can vary from disastrous to so-what