neocloud

English

Etymology

neo- +‎ cloud

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Noun

neocloud (plural neoclouds)

  1. (neologism) A kind of datacentre provider of maximum performance on scarcest space, in particular for artificial intelligence and supercomputers, where hyperscalers are not cost-effective.
    Coordinate terms: high-performance computing, HPC, supercomputing
    • 2025 December 19, Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, “Why Roomba Died + Tech Predictions for 2026 + A Hard Forkin' Xmas Song”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
      I'm skeptical of some of these so-called neoclouds, the companies like CoreWeave that sort of exist to rent GPUs and other AI infrastructure to the big suppliers. I think they might struggle in 2026, but I would be very surprised if we have sort of a single huge dot style collapse in 2026.
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