hyperscaler

English

Etymology

From hyperscale +‎ -er.

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Noun

hyperscaler (plural hyperscalers)

  1. (computing) A company that provides hyperscale computing infrastructure.
    • 2022, Tom Taulli, Modern Mainframe Development, page 282:
      The hyperscalers include the mega cloud operators like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
    • 2024 December 5, Madhumita Murgia, “Anthropic’s Dario Amodei: Democracies must maintain the lead in AI”, in Financial Times‎[1], archived from the original on 5 December 2024:
      Do you think it’s possible for a company like Anthropic to do this without a hyperscaler [like Amazon or Google][sic]?
    • 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 hyperscalers get more creative”, in The Economist‎[2], archived from the original on 28 July 2025:
      New facilities consume more electricity than ever. A rack of servers stuffed with AI chips requires about ten times more power than a non-AI version a few years ago. A study by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that in 2023 America's data centres used 176 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity. 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.

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