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What is Co-Location?

July 03, 2024

A co-location center at data center, CoLo. I hadn't considered CoLo being Colorado, but absolutely it could be. Maybe it gives them visions of skiing. But a co-location facility, if you think about what the word co-locate, it simply means I'm going to store my stuff alongside where you're storing your stuff.

So, one of those mini warehouses that you rent, where you rent a bay and I rent a bay, that would be warehouse storage co-location, right? We're both in side by side, a data center co-location it's at the rack unit. And so I might have a rack with my equipment in it. And then the company, the rack right next to me is this locked cabinet.

They have their own equipment in it. So multiple companies are in this data center and why? Well, I could build infrastructure, physical infrastructure in that data center, like security. Who has access to it. I can build a power feed that are redundant power feeds. I can have a redundant internet coming into it, and I can do that at scale, much more cost effectively than saying, let me do all that for my own office.

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