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datacenter

datacenter is the alternative spelling 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

Forms of datacenter

pluraldatacenters

Origin of datacenter

From data + center; as is generally true of English orthography for many compound nouns, the open compound was the original form and the solid compound gained acceptance over time. In the particular case of data center and datacenter, the 2020s were the decade when the solid variant went from IT-insider-jargon-only status to wide acceptance in general register.

Questions about datacenter

What is datacenter the alternative spelling of?
Datacenter is the alternative spelling of data centre.

Words near datacenter in the dictionary

  1. datacast
  2. datacaster
  3. datacasters
  4. datacasting
  5. datacasts
  6. datacenter
  7. datacenters
  8. datacentre
  9. datacentres
  10. datacentric
  11. dataclass

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Adapted from Wiktionary: datacenter (page history and authors); data centre (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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