The term “colocation” historically has more than one meaning. In current usage, colocation (or colo) commonly refers to a data center facility which rents space for servers and other computing hardware.
If you look at the evolution of critical facilities you will see a fairly consistent increase in complexities as the requirements and expectation of sustaining continuous operations became more and more demanding.
It is easy to perceive that both data centers and thoughts about data centers have shifted dramatically since the first giant computers took up entire rooms to themselves.
During the first weekend of 2017, much of the United States was hit by a winter storm that dropped snow and ice over portions of the U.S. from the Rocky Mountains across the plains to the East Coast.