Most corporate IT is off premises. Data center costs, staffing remain difficult, Uptime reports
Companies are allocating a larger share of IT workloads to colocation and cloud providers (46%) than to enterprise-owned data centers (44%), Uptime Institute finds. Data center owners and operators are grappling with AI-driven capacity planning challenges, staffing shortages, and rising outage costs.
By Denise Dubie
Jul 30, 2026 5 mins
Artificial IntelligenceData CenterData Center Management