[j45]

This might be a little incomplete.

It's trivial, to get equipment at a datacenter, where the equipment is visited for you on your behalf if you wish.

You can place your own equipment in a datacenter to manage yourself (dedicated servers).

You can have varying amounts of the hardware up to the software layer managed for you as a managed server, where others on site will do certain tasks.

Both of these can still be cheaper than cloud (which provides a convenience and a large markup to make often open source tools easy to administer from a web browser), and then paying someone to manage the cloud.

Global location at once can still be done with the reality of hybrid-cloud or cloud-agnostic setup requirements (not to be tied to one cloud only for fallback and independence).