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

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

Support is split along geographic lines

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

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...

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

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