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First signs of federal data center reporting mandates appear in US
The past year (2022) has seen regulators in many countries develop…

EU’s EED recast set to create reporting challenges
The European Commission’s (EC’s) proposed recast of its…

Vegetable oil promises a sustainable alternative to diesel
The thousands of gallons of diesel that data centers store on-site…

Sustainability laws set to drive real change
Nearly 15 years ago – in 2008 – Uptime Institute presented…

Extreme heat stress-tests European data centers – again
An extreme heat wave swept across much of Western Europe on…

Industry consensus on sustainability looks fragile
Pressed by a sense of urgency among scientists and the wider…

Data center operators give themselves a “Fail” for sustainability
The global data center industry describes its own sustainability…

Climate change: More operators prepare to weather the storms
To track changing attitudes and responses to climate change and the related threats to infrastructure, Uptime Institute Intelligence concluded two global surveys in the fourth quarters of 2020 and 2021, respectively.

Extreme weather affects nearly half of data centers
Recent extreme weather-related events in the US (the big freeze…

PG&E Turns Power Off (a.k.a. Climate Change and the Data Center)
In our October 2018 report, A mission-critical industry unprepared…