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data centres

data centres is the plural of data centre.

Meaning of data centre

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

Questions about data centres

What is data centres the plural of?
Data centres is the plural of data centre.

Words near data centres in the dictionary

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

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