We are entering a period of unprecedented pressure as AI adoption accelerates, energy constraints tighten, and expectations around uptime and cybersecurity continue to rise. Data center operators face ever-growing pressures to scale operations and maintain site uptime, while meeting compliance, cost and sustainability expectations.
In this recently published report Honeywell commissioned independent research firm Verdantix to survey data center executives across strategy, engineering, construction and operations roles.
Download it now for insights into:
- How AI, energy resilience, and cybersecurity are reshaping C-suite priorities
- What’s driving investment in digitalization, energy management, and security
- The key barriers slowing technology adoption across the industry
- The technologies defining tomorrow’s data center, from liquid cooling to BESS and AI-driven sustainability
Jan. 13, 2026, 11:34 a.m. - Jose M. Moya
Reports like this capture well where investment priorities are converging. But the question is how these "capabilities" translate into actual system behaviour, especially when sustainability, cost, resilience and build velocity pull in different directions. Without shared semantics and decision logic across layers, more data and AI risk reinforcing existing operating modes rather than changing them.