Due to regulatory mandates and expanded stakeholder expectations, a growing share of operators are quantifying and publicly reporting a complete carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions
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DLC will not come to the rescue of data center sustainability
A growing number of data center operators and equipment vendors are anticipating the proliferation of direct liquid cooling systems (DLC) over the next few years.
US mandates crypto energy reporting: will data centers be next?
Rising concerns about cryptocurrency mining energy use have led the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) to launch a six-month emergency data reporting mandate (on January
Performance expectations of liquid cooling need a reality check
The idea of using liquids to cool IT hardware, exemplified by technologies such as cold plates and immersion cooling, is frequently hailed as the ultimate
FinOps gives hope to those struggling with cloud costs
Cloud workloads are continuing to grow — sometimes adding to traditional on-premises workloads, sometimes replacing them. The Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2023 shows
The majority of enterprise IT is now off-premises
Corporate data centers have been the backbone of enterprise IT since the 1960s and continue to play an essential role in supporting critical business and
Large data centers are mostly more efficient, analysis confirms
Uptime Institute calculates an industry average power usage effectiveness (PUE), which is a ratio of total site power to IT power, each year using data
When net-zero goals meet harsh realities
For more than a decade, the data center industry — and the wider digital infrastructure that relies on it — has lived with the threat
What role might generative AI play in the data center?
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are expected to change the way work is done across numerous organizations and job roles. This is especially true for
Looking for the x-factor in data center efficiency
The suitability of a data center environment is primarily judged by its effect on the long-term health of IT hardware. Facility operators define their temperature