Data Centre Magazine August 2020 | Page 73

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Other advantages to colocation are a greater level risk mitigation and benefits in terms of scaling an enterprise . Take the hyperscalers as an example . They build their own data centres – they have the means and capabilities to do so . But , if they need 100 data centres over the course of this year , they ’ ll typically build 30 to 50 and they ’ ll take the rest of the space from colocate because , if you go to market and need a 100,000 sq ft data centre you ’ re typically looking at around five years before you can be in . With
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