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Definition: cloud computing datacenter


The physical facility where cloud computing providers house their servers. Major cloud providers can have more than a million servers in datacenters distributed throughout the world. A datacenter for a company's internal processing that is not serving the public over the Internet would not be considered a cloud computing datacenter. See cloud computing, cloud provider, server and datacenter.




A Cloud Datacenter
Cloud computing datacenters are mostly devoid of humans with row after row of rack-mounted servers. See rack mounted.