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= Hyperscaler
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Basically means "company with huge server farms, and which usually rents them out like <Amazon AWS> or <Google Cloud Platform>

\Image[https://web.archive.org/web/20220803073556im_/https://energyinnovation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Estimated-global-data-electricity-use-by-data-center-type.png]
{title=Global electricity use by data center type: 2010 vs 2018}
{description=The growth of <hyperscaler> cloud vs smaller cloud and private deployments was incredible in that period!}
{source=https://energyinnovation.org/2020/03/17/how-much-energy-do-data-centers-really-use/}


Hyperscale computing