Data Center Industry Insights and Analysis from Uptime Institute
Data Center Industry News and Insights from Uptime Institute
Data Center Industry News and Insights from Uptime Institute
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Survey findings link higher redundancy to lower outage risk

Survey findings link higher redundancy to lower outage risk

To most data center operators, the benefit of redundant power…
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Preventing skill decay as AI use expands

Preventing skill decay as AI use expands

Although many data center operators remain optimistic about…
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Survey findings link higher redundancy to lower outage risk

Survey findings link higher redundancy to lower outage risk

To most data center operators, the benefit of redundant power…
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Preventing skill decay as AI use expands

Preventing skill decay as AI use expands

Although many data center operators remain optimistic about…
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Data centers face new scrutiny over heat island effect

Data centers face new scrutiny over heat island effect

Opposition to data center developments has been spreading due…
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Lower density brings server efficiency and cooling gains

Lower density brings server efficiency and cooling gains

For many years — well before AI compute’s “big bang”…
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Advances in fine-tuning reduce total volume of AI training

Advances in fine-tuning reduce total volume of AI training

In the early days of generative AI, much attention was focused…
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Investments back two-phase cooling as water cold plate successor

Investments back two-phase cooling as water cold plate successor

Direct liquid cooling (DLC) has attracted significant investment…
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US data center critics pivot from moratoria to regulations

US data center critics pivot from moratoria to regulations

In April 2026, the US state of Maine’s governor vetoed a state-level…
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Enterprises will deploy inference in-house — if they can

Enterprises will deploy inference in-house — if they can

The development of large language models (LLMs) is a complex…
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Capacity allocation and the next generation of AI-era KPIs

Capacity allocation and the next generation of AI-era KPIs

AI workloads are reshaping data center infrastructure at an…
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Project approval will hinge on local benefit guarantees

Project approval will hinge on local benefit guarantees

In January 2026, more than 230 US-based advocacy groups signed…
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Liquid cooling will not outgrow its high-density niche

Liquid cooling will not outgrow its high-density niche

Deployment of direct liquid cooling (DLC, as cold plate or immersion…
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As emissions soar, operators look to carbon capture

As emissions soar, operators look to carbon capture

During 2024 and 2025, a new trend emerged: many large data center…
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AI in data: sorting reality from hallucination

Many people do not use the term artificial intelligence correctly:…
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AI and cooling: toward more automation

AI and cooling: toward more automation

AI is increasingly steering the data center industry toward…
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