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hyperscaler

hyperscaler noun: a company that provides hyperscale computing infrastructure.

Noun

hyperscaler (plural hyperscalers)

  1. A company that provides hyperscale computing infrastructure.
    • The hyperscalers include the mega cloud operators like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.2022, Tom Taulli, Modern Mainframe Development, page 282
    • Do you think it’s possible for a company like Anthropic to do this without a hyperscaler [like Amazon or Google]^([sic])?2024 December 5, Madhumita Murgia, “Anthropic’s Dario Amodei: Democracies must maintain the lead in AI”, in Financial Times, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2024

Examples of hyperscaler in a sentence

  • That is forecast to increase to between 325TWh and 580TWh by 2028 (see chart 2), or 7-12% of America's total consumption, with hyperscalers accounting for about half.2025 July 28, Editorial staff, “How big tech plans to feed AI's voracious appetite for power. As data centres get more energy-hungry, the...
  • The Big Four “hyperscalers”—Amazon, Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft—expect to deploy a combined $725bn of capital expenditure this year on data centres.2026 July 25, Rafe Rosner-Uddin, Clara Murray, “US tech giants slash 140,000 jobs”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN...

Forms of hyperscaler

pluralhyperscalers

Origin of hyperscaler

From hyperscale + -er.

Questions about hyperscaler

What does hyperscaler mean?
Hyperscaler means a company that provides hyperscale computing infrastructure.
How do you use hyperscaler in a sentence?
That is forecast to increase to between 325TWh and 580TWh by 2028 (see chart 2), or 7-12% of America's total consumption, with hyperscalers accounting for about half.
What part of speech is hyperscaler?
Hyperscaler is a noun.
What is the plural of hyperscaler?
The plural of hyperscaler is hyperscalers.

Words near hyperscaler in the dictionary

  1. hypersaturated
  2. hypersaturation
  3. hyperscalar
  4. hyperscalars
  5. hyperscale
  6. hyperscaler
  7. hyperscalers
  8. hyperscaling
  9. hyperscanning
  10. hyperscat
  11. hyperschema

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