data centredata centern.
/ˈdeɪtə ˌsɛntə/, U.S. /ˈdædə ˌsɛn(t)ər/, /ˈdeɪdə ˌsɛn(t)ər/ Originally U.S.
A facility (esp. one housing large numbers of computers) for storing, processing, and distributing data relating to a particular organization or field of activity; a server farm. Also: a computer designed for data processing (now rare).In quot. 1942 and other early examples, center is modified by a preceding noun phrase of which data is the head (i.e. ‘birth-data center’), and not directly by data.
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1942 Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) 21 May 12/4 Fort Birth Data Center Saturday. An advisory service center for Ft. Atkinson workers seeking to file delayed birth records will be held Saturday.]
1956 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Jrnl. 12 Feb. 50/5 95 to Man Sylvania Data Center... Recruitment of 60 employes [sic] in addition to 35 already here for the Sylvania Electric Products electronic data processing center is indicated.
1958 Times 1 Oct. 3/2 A world data centre for rockets and satellites is operating at the Radio Research Station..at Ditton Park, Slough.
1961 Observer 19 Feb. 5/4 An electronic master-mind called the ‘Honeywell Data Centre’.
1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 Sept. b2/8 Each of the three Canadian companies..has been looking at the possibility of relocating their data centres.
1987 Washington Post (Nexis) 24 June d1 In July we have a daily high of 87.9..according to Axel Grauman, a meteorologist at the National Climatic Data Center.
2007 Wall St. Jrnl. 22 Jan. b5/5 Search-engine giant Google Inc. plans to spend $600 million to build a data center in North Carolina.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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