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datacenter

American  
[dey-tuh-sen-ter] / ˈdeɪ təˌsɛn tər /
Or data center

noun

  1. a facility equipped with or connected to one or more computers, used for processing or transmitting data.


Etymology

Origin of datacenter

data + center

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Demand may also need time to catch up with that extra datacenter horsepower, while macro cycles are still an important consideration.

From MarketWatch May 28, 2026

“Supermicro’s transformation into a total datacenter infrastructure provider is accelerating,” Liang said.

From The Wall Street Journal May 5, 2026

“The regulatory landscape does not allow us to offer a competitive datacenter GPU in China, leaving that massive market to our rapidly growing foreign competitors,” a Nvidia spokesperson told Barron’s in an emailed statement.

From Barron's Nov. 24, 2025

Qualcomm on Monday announced the release of a new series of artificial intelligence chips to compete with the market leader Nvidia, as the race to cash in on the massive AI datacenter buildout heats up.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 27, 2025

Bernstein analyst Stacy Rasgon said Intel's "AI story still seems marginal" and the "datacenter performance continues to suffer from significant headwinds".

From Reuters Oct. 27, 2023

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