Uptime Institute Insights Newsletter

Lunar New Year

Welcome to the February 2026 Edition
of Uptime Institute Insights

Uptime Institute's AI Infrastructure Advisory provides independent technical oversight across the full lifecycle, ensuring your facility performs as intended from day one—protecting both your investment and time to market.
Whether you're designing and building new, retrofitting existing infrastructure, or evaluating technology vendors, Uptime Institute delivers the independent assurance that your facility will be ready to support your AI ambitions.

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Enhanced Accredited Operations Specialist (AOS) Course Offering
Uptime Education's Accredited Operations Specialist (AOS) course helps you to achieve the full knowledge and expertise needed to create and manage business-critical data center operations to reduce risk and achieve uptime, performance, and efficiency.

Enhanced to align with Management & Operations (M&O) expectations, the AOS course is designed to help professionals better manage the complexity of modern data center infrastructure, enabling more precise identification and mitigation of operational risk in critical facilities.
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Uptime in the News
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Article by Bahrain News Agency

Interior Minister Commends International Accreditation of Data and Integrated Solutions Centre /Read More

 
Article by TechRepublic

Why Half of All Planned Mega Data Centers May Never Be Built /Read More

 

Article by IEEE Spectrum

Are There Enough Engineers for the AI Boom? Big Tech Wants More Data Centers, but the Workforce is Lacking
/Read More

Article by Network World

Power Shortages, Carbon Capture, and AI Automation: What’s Ahead for Data Centers in 2026 /Read More

 
Article by The Register

Ignore Rosy Datacenter Expansion Projections – There isn't Enough Power /Read More

 

Article by Gulf Entrepreneur

SDAIA Starts Building World’s Largest Government Data Centre /Read More

 
Recent Blog Posts

AI and Cooling: Toward More Automation
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AI’s Growth Calls for Useful IT Efficiency Metrics
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AI Power Fluctuations Strain Both Budgets and Hardware
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Uptime Institute


This spring, Uptime Network members across the Americas and EMEA will gather at our two regional conferences focused on advancing the future of digital infrastructure:

  • Dallas | Mar 17–18, 2026
  • Dublin | Apr 21–22, 2026

Each two-day event will feature exclusive data center tours, workshops, and in-depth sessions on the most critical topics impacting the industry.

Registration is open for Network members exclusively. Not a Network member? Request Guest Access now.

 
Join Us at These Events
 

Capacity Iraq Connect Co-located with Capacity Middle East
February 9, 2026

Dubai, UAE

See us at the following event sessions:

Panel: Building Iraq's digital future
Mustapha Louni, Chief Business Officer, Uptime Institute
February 9, 2026, 14:05-14:50

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Datacloud Middle East 2026
February 10-12, 2026

Dubai, UAE


Panel: Fast-Track to Scale: designing data centres for high-density growth
Mustapha Louni, Chief Business Officer, Uptime Institute
February 10, 2026, 14:00-14:45

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Data Center Nation Paris 2026
February 17, 2026

Paris, France

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Datacenter Forum Oslo 2026
February 26, 2026

Oslo, Norway

See us at the following event sessions:

Session: Five Data Center Predictions for 2026
Tomas Rahkonen, Research Director, Uptime Intelligence
February 26, 2026, 10:00-10:25

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