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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In IT context local is a well establised term. It's either hosted locally, i. e. on machine running the browser or not. A datacenter or cloud are remote machines also by the same well established definition.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ok, now do your own datacenter vs cloud.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

And what term might be used to describe the location of the datacenter down the hall, that is not used to describe the one across the country? It’s pretty standard in IT, but also used outside of IT by normal people for things such as describing a pub.