Many people may have heard the term “data center” but most don’t really know what that means. Nonetheless, these data centers are incredibly important to our everyday way of life. What is a data center? Data centers are these vast, huge, sometimes-sprawling buildings dedicated to holding the back-end computer systems, machinery and associated components needed to help run what we consumers know of as “the internet”. In a way these data centers are “the cloud” that we think of when we say our info is “stored out there…in the cloud”, and these data centers can use as much electricity as a small town. What is colocation? A colocation data center…