A datacenter with massive amounts of computer power 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 2026, the major hyperscalers are Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Alibaba, Meta, Oracle, Apple, CoreWeave, Tencent and Huawei. See
Project Stargate,
AI datacenter,
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.