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> This is because the costs associated with powering and cooling a data center are rapidly rising.

Because when I think "IoT", the first place I think of is a datacenter...

You might not, but where do you think the vast amount of data produced by IoT devices is going to go?

Somewhere other than an IoT device?

It usually goes like IoT device - gateway - data center. IoT devices are having a massive impact on data center architectures.

So any processor that ever touches data that came from an IoT device is an "IoT processor"?

I would agree that data center processors are not IoT processors. They're generic, server processors.

IoT == "connected devices"... with the emphasis on devices. i.e. embedded microcontrollers.

Also note that they themselves don't have to be packaged with some RF comms, plain old microcontrollers are entirely suitable for most cases.