datacentre

plural datacentres

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of data centre.

   Over the past two decades, datacentres have become a common sight on the outskirts of Dublin and many other Irish cities and towns. Situated in industrial business parks, they are easy to miss.

   2024 February 15, Jessica Traynor, “Power grab: the hidden costs of Ireland’s datacentre boom”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2024

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   “We were heavily involved in also trading: people on Wall Street were buying our stuff to save a few nanoseconds on the wire, the banks were doing crazy things like pulling the fibres under the Hudson taut to make them a little big shorter, to save a few nanoseconds between their datacentre and the stock exchange,” he said.

   2023 March 26, Alex Hern, quoting Michael Kagan, “Cryptocurrencies add nothing useful to society, says chip-maker Nvidia”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 Apr 2023