Findings from Uptime Institute’s 12th Annual Global Data Center Survey show an industry that is growing, dynamic and increasingly resilient, but still working to address increasing pressure for sustainability progress and reporting, continuing staffing shortages, supply chain delays, costly outages and other complex challenges.
Uptime’s annual Global Data Center Survey is the largest and most comprehensive in the digital infrastructure industry. It provides detailed insights into the digital critical infrastructure landscape and a sense of its future trajectory. Key findings from the 2022 report include: • PUE progress is in stasis for now and future efficiency gains must focus on IT power – The average annual power usage effectiveness reported in 2022 was 1.55. This represents a slight improvement over the 2021 average of 1.57, which is consistent with the trend of marginal PUE gains Uptime has observed annually since 2014. Going forward, achieving substantial data center efficiency improvements will require a new focus on IT efficiency, along with metrics to track and report progress.
• Outages are becoming more expensive and are still far too frequent – The share of all outages costing operators over $1-million has reached 25%, a significant increase from 15% in 2021. In 2022, 60% of operators reported experiencing an outage in the past three years — down from 69% in 2021 and 78% in 2020.