Data Center Industry Insights and Analysis from Uptime Institute
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Electrical considerations with large AI compute

Electrical considerations with large AI compute

The training of large generative AI models is a special case…
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Is this the data center metric for the 2030s?

Is this the data center metric for the 2030s?

When the PUE metric was first proposed and adopted at a Green…
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Electrical considerations with large AI compute

Electrical considerations with large AI compute

The training of large generative AI models is a special case…
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Is this the data center metric for the 2030s?

Is this the data center metric for the 2030s?

When the PUE metric was first proposed and adopted at a Green…
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Mixed resiliency at the edge

Mixed resiliency at the edge

Many analysts have forecast an explosion in demand for edge data centers. After a long, slow start, demand is beginning to build, with small, prefabricated and mostly remotely operated data centers ready to be deployed to support a varying array of applications.
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Does the spread of direct liquid cooling make PUE less relevant?

Does the spread of direct liquid cooling make PUE less relevant?

The power usage effectiveness (PUE) metric is predominant thanks to its universal applicability and its simplicity: energy used by the entire data center, divided by energy used by the IT equipment.
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ASHRAE Guidelines

New ASHRAE guidelines challenge efficiency drive

Earlier in 2021, ASHRAE’s Technical Committee 9.9 published an update — the fifth edition — of its Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments.
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Too big to fail? Facebook’s global outage

Too big to fail? Facebook’s global outage

The bigger the outage, the greater the need for explanations and, most importantly, for taking steps to avoid a repeat.
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Vertiv’s DCIM ambitions wither on Trellis’ demise

Vertiv’s DCIM ambitions wither on Trellis’ demise

Operators often say that data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software is a necessary evil. Modern facilities need centralized, real-time management and analytics, but DCIM is notoriously difficult to deploy.
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Startups brew new chemistries for fresh battery types

Startups brew new chemistries for fresh battery types

Widespread net-zero carbon emission pledges are spurring innovative data center battery technologies.
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Eyeing an uptick in edge data center demand

Eyeing an uptick in edge data center demand

Data center end-user organizations and suppliers alike expect an uptick in edge data center demand in the near term.
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Fastly outage underscores slow creep of digital services risk

A recent outage at content delivery network Fastly took down…
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UI @ 2021

Green tariff renewable energy purchases

Until recently, power purchase agreements (PPAs) and unbundled…
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UI @ 2021

Pandemic has driven up data center costs

As the pandemic began to make an impact in early 2020, it became…
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Renewable energy and data centers: Buyer, be aware

Across the world, data center owners and managers are striving…
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UI @ 2021

The insider threat: Social engineering is raising security risks

Uptime Institute Members say one of their most vexing security…
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