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datacentre

datacentre 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 datacentre

pluraldatacentres

Questions about datacentre

What is datacentre the alternative spelling of?
Datacentre is the alternative spelling of data centre.

Words near datacentre in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: datacentre (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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