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Glossary term
A facility housing the servers, networking and cooling used for computing at scale.
A data center is a building filled with servers, networking and storage, with the power and cooling to keep them running. AI data centers pack in many GPUs and need far more power per rack than conventional ones.
Companies are building new ones at large scale to meet AI demand.
Power, cooling and chip supply constrain AI growth, so data centers have become a headline issue for energy and local communities.