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

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

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

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

Support is split along geographic lines

You can shave off some power losses, but your UPS won't isolate your systems so well

Power problems are no longer the top cause of outages

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

Data center availability standards are built around legacy technology. We need a framework that can include new thinking

Uptime Institute admits problems with multi-level certification, and its critics have a field day