In the movies and on TV the hero always knows the right thing to do, even when the required knowledge would seem to be just a bit outside his or her purview.
The colocation industry started in the late 1980s and early 1990s when corporations were looking to outsource the facility side of the earliest data centers.
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.