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

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

Dissipating data center waste heat into bodies of water, rather than the atmosphere, can provide efficiency benefits year round

Direct liquid cooling has enormous potential if the industry can get the chemistry right

Most say the industry's environmental commitments are not (yet) effective in curbing data centers' environmental impact

Cloud prices are generally trending downwards. But the inherent flexibility of cloud means providers can easily increase prices too

More data center managers would consider moving mission-critical workloads to a public cloud provider if visibility of operational resiliency improved

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

Advances in data center cooling and power technology could seriously undermine PUE as a benchmarking tool and eventually spell its obsolescence as an efficiency metric

Industry body expands its climatic recommendations for data centers to address corrosives, high-density servers

Workload needs will define and drive edge buildout.