Owen Tucker-Smith
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first heard Sep 2026
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These are not the kinds of staffs that you'd see in maybe an auto manufacturing plant where there's 1,000 people.
It's more like 50 or 100.
But there's a crew of engineers and technicians who their job is basically to make sure that nothing breaks because the one job of a data center is to stay operational.
The goal is 99.999% of the time because if you go down for a few seconds, then America's internet is in peril.
So they are trying to make sure that the servers are still running and that they're not overheating and that there are no cracks in the equipment and that the electricity is all set.
And so it's a lot of maintenance and repairs, communicating with customers and just making sure that everything looks good.
Yeah.
So it's sort of one of those compared to what questions, because a lot of times when people see a big facility being built, they think of kind of the classic American manufacturing facility, which it can anchor some of these cities, whether it's like the defense industry or
cars, or something else.
These are huge plants that employ hundreds, if not thousands of people who then form the core of the town.
And this isn't really that.
The data centers will say that compared to many office buildings, these facilities employ a lot of people and that we shouldn't be complaining about an extra 50 or 100 or 200 jobs in a town.
It's still a
and not positive.
But I think some of the employment-related backlash comes from the fact that people expect a facility that might be 1 million, 2 million square feet large to employ more than a few hundred people.
And so when you walk around one of these facilities, it can be
little bit eerie because a lot of the rooms are empty and there's these big cavernous hallways that just stretch forever that you can't see the end of and you can't really see people.
So there is a little kind of dystopian element of it but they obviously do require humans, at least for now, to keep them running.
The sleeping there overnight is a worst case scenario.
It's often a lot of the people who are in a data center at any given moment are customer employees.
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