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data centre

data centre noun: a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems.

Noun

data centre (plural data centres)

  1. A facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems.
    • In its 2013 sustainability report, Facebook stated its data centers used 986 million kilowatt-hours of electricity—around the same amount consumed by Burkina Faso in 2012.2015 December 16, Ingrid Burrington, “The Environmental Toll of a Netflix Binge”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 18 Feb 2016
    • Every age has its own distinctive building type. For the 19th century, it was the railway station, for the 20th century, it was the skyscraper. For the 21st century, it looks like it'll be the data centre. What a time to be alive.2026 January 17, Edwin Heathcote, “Welcome to a post-human world”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13

data centre meaning in Hindi and Arabic

data centre in Hindi

Translations
आँकड़ा केन्द्र ā̃kṛā kendra

data centre in Arabic

Translations
مركز بيانات, داتا سنتر

Forms of data centre

pluraldata centres
alternative formdatacentre
alternative formdata center
alternative formdatacenter

Questions about data centre

What does data centre mean?
Data centre means a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems.
What is data centre in Hindi?
Data centre in Hindi is आँकड़ा केन्द्र (ā̃kṛā kendra). See Data centre meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is data centre?
Data centre is a noun.
What is the plural of data centre?
The plural of data centre is data centres.

Words near data centre in the dictionary

  1. data cables
  2. Data Carrier Equipment
  3. Data Carrier Equipments
  4. data center
  5. data centers
  6. data centre
  7. data centres
  8. Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment
  9. Data Circuit-Terminating Equipments
  10. data collection
  11. data collection tree

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