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Definition: hyperscaler


A cloud provider with massive amounts of compute and storage, especially designed for AI processing. The hyper moniker implies that servers can "scale out" (expand) to whatever quantity of processing is needed. As of 2025, the major hyperscalers are Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, IBM, Alibaba, Tencent and Huawei. See AI datacenter, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud, IBM Cloud and cloud computing.