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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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TacticalCoder ◴[17 Jan 25 23:53 UTC] No.42744487[source]▶
> 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?

TFA explain what they're doing, they literally write this:

"In general you have three main choices: Greenfield buildout (...), Cage Colocation (getting a private space inside a provider's datacenter enclosed by mesh walls), or Rack colocation...

We chose the second option"

I don't know how much clearer they can be.

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1. quickthrowman ◴[18 Jan 25 15:09 UTC] No.42748911[source]▶
Only one of those options is ‘building your own data center’, and I’ll give you three guesses as to which one it is. I’ll even give you a hint: ‘greenfield’ is in the correct answer.