It's from the show. At that point in the show, the main company in the show had packaged their compression technology into a rack mountable device, and part of

It's from the show. At that point in the show, the main company in the show had packaged their compression technology into a rack mountable device, and part of their service agreement with customers was a requirement for 24 hour support. The guy in the photo with the pony tail is a datacenter employee who is showing the main cast where their support personnel will have to sit. It's basically a waste of time and space to have someone at that desk 24/7, but it is part of the contract that their customers required.