I had the exact same thing when I arrived at university in 2004. There was a big Compsci building that had been completed a year or two before I arrived (start

I had the exact same thing when I arrived at university in 2004. There was a big Compsci building that had been completed a year or two before I arrived (started being built before the dotcom crash). It was scoped for the massive growth in students that they were expecting in computing. By the time I arrived the thing was practically a ghost town. Student enrollment had cratered. I remember the huge fields of desktop computers available for students on multiple floors, and it was basically empty the whole time.