A data center with massive amounts of computer power and storage for cloud computing customers. Today, hyperscaler hardware often contains GPUs for AI processing. The hyper moniker implies that servers can "scale out" (expand) to whatever quantity of processing is needed.
The major U.S. public hyperscalers are Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Oracle and CoreWeave. Major Chinese hyperscalers are Alibaba, Tencent and Huawei. See
Project Stargate,
AI data center,
Amazon Web Services,
Microsoft Azure,
Google Cloud Platform,
CoreWeave,
Oracle Cloud,
IBM Cloud and
cloud computing.
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AR) Ending in "ar," a hyperscalar is a computer processor that executes multiple instructions at the same time using more than one execution unit. All top-end CPUs are hyperscalars. In contrast, a microcontroller would not be an example. The "ar" and "er" endings are often interchanged. See
superscalar,
multicore and
microcontroller.