> Did I misunderstand you when you said you don't need generators, UPS, and multiple HVAC systems? No, you seem to misunderstand how leased space works. If you

> Did I misunderstand you when you said you don't need generators, UPS, and multiple HVAC systems? No, you seem to misunderstand how leased space works. If you rent a floor of an office building, the toilets flush without you having to own a water plant or redundant water pipes. > when I worked there, we constantly had to deal with the unreliability of colos- not just that they were smaller, It sounds like whomever was in charge of picking datacenters was shit at their job. The colocation market isn't what it used to be and it isn't just a dude with some warehouse space and swamp coolers. Colos are publicly traded companies or REITs and have good SLAs. > I just don't thinnk they are prepared to handle disasters nearly as well as the megascale cloud providers. I worked for a megascale cloud provider. I'm intimately familiar with the nuts and bolts of a few others. Some of it is the big owned and operated campuses you see in the glossy brochure photos, but a substantial part is also in the same colos you can lease yourself. They don't bring in any additional cooling or power over and above what the datacenter provides.