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So you want to build your own data center

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jonatron ◴[17 Jan 25 22:24 UTC] No.42743915[source]▶
Why would you call colocation "building your own data center"? You could call it "colocation" or "renting space in a data center". What are you building? You're racking. Can you say what you mean?
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inopinatus ◴[18 Jan 25 07:06 UTC] No.42746491[source]▶
Come to my office and tell me how it’s not actually my office because it’s leased by my company from the investment vehicle for institutional investors that owns the building that stands on land owned by someone else again that was stolen by the British anyway and therefore calling it “my office” makes me a fool and a liar and I should just “say what I mean”.
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1. motorest ◴[18 Jan 25 13:09 UTC] No.42748069[source]▶
> Come to my office and tell me how it’s not actually my office (...)

I think you're failing to understand the meaning and the point of "building your own datacenter".

Yes, you can talk about your office all you'd like. Much like OP can talk about there server farm and their backend infrastructure.

What you cannot talk about is your own office center. You do not own it. You rent office space. You only have a small fraction of the work required to operate an office, because you effectively offloaded the hard part to your landlord.

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3. inopinatus ◴[18 Jan 25 13:46 UTC] No.42748271[source]▶
Let’s chat about inferring meaning from pragmatic context at your data.