A datacenter IP (or hosting IP) is an address owned by a cloud or hosting company, such as AWS, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean or OVH, rather than by a broadband or mobile provider.
Who uses them
- Servers, scripts and bots.
- Commercial VPN services, whose exit servers run in datacenters.
- Proxies and scrapers.
- Occasionally legitimate integrations calling your API from a server.
Real people browsing from home or a phone almost never have one. Veqen flags them with datacenter_ip (impact 45-55): enough to ask for verification, not enough to block on its own.
Check any address with the free VPN detector.