In recent years, the environmental sustainability of IT has become a significant concern for investors and customers, as well as regulatory, legislative and environmental stakeholders. This concern is expected to intensify as the impact of climate change on health, safety and the global economy becomes more pronounced. It has given rise to an assortment of […]| Uptime Institute Blog
Supporting Australia’s Digital Trust Ecosystem The OpenID Foundation’s Australian Digital Trust Community Group (ADT CG) has submitted comments to Australia’s Productivity Commission on its Interim Report covering data and digital technology policy, demonstrating the Foundation’s commitment to supporting policy development in Australia through expert technical guidance and industry collaboration. The ADT CG serves as a […] The post Australian Digital Trust Community Group responds t...| OpenID Foundation
Zambia has received a grant of $120 million from the World Bank, which it plans to use to expand its... Source| CIO Africa
Each new generation of server silicon is pushing traditional data center air cooling closer to its operational limits. In 2025, the thermal design power (TDP) of top-bin CPUs reached 500 W, and server chip product roadmaps indicate further escalation in pursuit of higher performance. To handle these high-powered chips, more IT organizations are considering direct […]| Uptime Institute Blog
Image of server installation To realize its long-term vision of becoming a provider of next-generation social infrastructure for a society that coexists with AI, SoftBank Corp. (TOKYO: 9434) is advancing a wide range of initiatives, including the buildout of distributed AI data centers. To fully aut…| SoftBank News. Bringing IT closer to home.
As businesses continue to navigate the complexities of product development and innovation, generative AI has the potential to be a powerful new tool for market research. In their recent article for the Harvard Business Review, “Using Gen AI for Early-Stage Market Research,” Ayelet Israeli, co-founder of the Customer Intelligence Lab at the Digital Data Design […] The post Larger, Faster, Cheaper: The Future of Market Research with AI appeared first on Digital Data Design Institute at Ha...| Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard
If AI can accept light supervision and then be off and running, what does it mean for how leaders and organizations design work, govern risk, and account for value? Drawing on perspectives from Jen Stave Jen Stave , Executive Director of the Digital Data Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, Columbia Business School’s Stephan Meier, and […] The post When Software Becomes Staff appeared first on Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard.| Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard
While much has been written, said and taught about data center sustainability, there is still limited consensus on the definition and scope of an ideal data center sustainability strategy. This lack of clarity has created much confusion, encouraged many operators to pursue strategies with limited results, and enabled some to make claims that are ultimately […]| Uptime Institute Blog
In the ever-evolving AI landscape, are you truly ready to integrate new technologies effectively, taking advantage of the radical opportunities they present for productivity increases and better operating models? Karim R. Lakhani, Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and faculty chair and co-founder of the Digital Data Design (D^3) […] The post Getting Ahead of the Curve: Insights from 3 Years of the Digital Data Design (D^3) Institute a...| Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard
The disconnect between AI’s transformative potential and the actual scale of implementation represents one of today’s most significant organizational| Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard
“Reasoning” models — and their offshoots, such as “deep research” — have emerged as a major trend in generative AI, helping improve the accuracy and reliability of responses to complex problems. However, this approach significantly increases the computational costs of generating responses. The imitation of reasoning means a higher consumption of server capacity, requiring additional […]| Uptime Institute Blog
The current AI "bubble" looks less like irrational exuberance and more like the natural process of digital infrastructure development.| Chris Grundemann
By Mark Dando on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO As businesses rely more on digital tools, data sovereignty matters more than ever to keep your business resilient and future-ready The post Making sense of data sovereignty and how to regain it appeared first on Information Age.| Information Age
As AI continues to reshape industries globally, the Digital Data Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard and the Harvard Business School Club of the Gulf| Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard
Many grid operators are struggling to meet customer power demands — in both volume and quality. As demand rises, utilities must also monitor and account for customer usage patterns that can degrade power quality (and add costs) for others on the grid. A 2024 Bloomberg analysis revealed a concentration of residential power issues occurring near […]| Uptime Institute Blog
As detailed at its 39th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, AI computing infrastructure is one of SoftBank Corp.'s (TOKYO: 9434) major growth initiatives, and a key part of its strategy to provide next-generation social infrastructure for Japan. On July 23, 2025, SoftBank announced a major new d…| SoftBank News. Bringing IT closer to home.
As AI-RAN emerges as a next-generation social infrastructure for the AI era, SoftBank Corp. (TOKYO: 9434) is taking the lead with the development of its pioneering solution: AITRAS. AITRAS integrates AI and radio access networks (RAN) on a common computing platform and its architecture enables advan…| SoftBank News. Bringing IT closer to home.
With the rapid development of AI, international data traffic has surged dramatically in recent years. Given this trend, securing a stable international communications network has become essential to sustaining economic growth and maintaining social infrastructure. Addressing the risk of communicatio…| SoftBank News. Bringing IT closer to home.
When it comes to generative AI models, the belief that bigger is better is an enduring one — shaping a wide array of high-stakes decisions from corporate investments to energy and permitting policy to technology export controls. A defining technical feature in the pursuit of ever-bigger models is denser compute hardware. This makes sense: as […]| Uptime Institute Blog
Major publicly reported outages in 2024 were longer and, therefore, more impactful than in previous years because of the growing number of ransomware attacks, according to data compiled by Uptime Intelligence. The data also shows an increase in the proportion of outages that were caused deliberately. The latest data relating to major publicly reported outages […] The post Publicly reported outages see increase in deliberate attacks appeared first on Uptime Institute Blog.| Uptime Institute Blog
Water use has become a benchmark metric for data center operational efficiency and sustainability, as well as a frequent target of community criticism. Operators should track and optimize their water use to protect the environment and secure the facility cooling’s autonomy when its capacity relies on water. However, water use does not fit into a […]| Uptime Institute Blog
Over the past year, data center operators have reduced formal mentorship programs and workforce initiatives, but this seems to have had little impact on the number of successfully recruited new hires, according to findings from the Uptime Institute Data Center Staffing and Recruitment Survey 2024. While such programs are generally regarded as effective in attracting […]| Uptime Institute Blog
The enthusiasm for generative AI is attracting serious investment, and the associated power and cooling requirements will pose a significant challenge for the data centers that house it. Upcoming AI training clusters will escalate silicon power and rack density to unprecedented heights, upending infrastructure design conventions and accelerating the adoption of cold plate and immersion […] The post AI embraces liquid cooling, but enterprise IT is slow to follow appeared first on Uptime Inst...| Uptime Institute Blog
Projections of data center capacity growth have exploded with the emergence of AI infrastructure and the continuing expansion and integration of standard IT functionality into the global economy. Electricity demand is growing in developed markets for the first time in more than a decade, led by proposed data center expansions and efforts to electrify the […]| Uptime Institute Blog
Over the past year, demand for GPUs to train generative AI models has soared. Some organizations have invested in GPU clusters costing millions of dollars for this purpose. Cloud services offered by the major hyperscalers and a new wave of GPU-focused cloud providers deliver an alternative to dedicated infrastructure for those unwilling, or unable, to […]| Uptime Institute Blog
Sustainability forms the heart of Southeast Asia’s political, corporate and societal agenda for the next decade. To fully achieve that requires an effective technology infrastructure.| INDVSTRVS
The third Transforming Infrastructure Performance (TIP) Live summit took place on 27 November 2023 at the Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) headquarters in London, hosted in collaboration with the ICE, the Construction Leadership Council (CLC), the Infrastructure Client Group, and …| Infrastructure and Projects Authority
Source: Shutterstock In a world of scarce resources, tight deadlines and limited budgets, being as productive and efficient as possible is key to delivering value for citizens - the use of data and digital tools is essential in this. IPA …| Infrastructure and Projects Authority
Regular readers of Uptime Institute’s annual data center survey, the longest running of its kind, already know that the industry average power usage effectiveness (PUE, a ratio of total site power and IT power) has trended sideways in recent years. Since 2020, it has been stuck in the 1.55 to 1.59 band. Even going back […]| Uptime Institute Blog
