hyperscaler

plural hyperscalers

1. computingA 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

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   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

   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.

   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, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2025

   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, →OCLC, page 1