data centre
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.80 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Every age has its own distinctive building type. For the 19th century, it was the railway station, for the 20th century, it was the skyscraper. For the 21st century, it looks like it'll be the data centre. What a time to be alive."
- "Such is his enthusiasm for AI's potential that [Dario] Amodei envisions the day when Anthropic will soon be running a “a country of geniuses in a data centre” with enormous consequences for all our lives."