The major advantage of owning your own servers is that you, well, own them. Ideally you'd rent space at a carrier hotel like One Wilshire where you have access

The major advantage of owning your own servers is that you, well, own them. Ideally you'd rent space at a carrier hotel like One Wilshire where you have access to numerous providers in the meet me room. That way if whatever it is you're doing suddenly becomes unfashionable, you can't have some activist cloud provider decide to destroy your business on a whim.