The actual staffing of DCs is rather sparse for hyperscalers and are typically outsourced if not prime DCs to a few companies that also do it with fairly low he

The actual staffing of DCs is rather sparse for hyperscalers and are typically outsourced if not prime DCs to a few companies that also do it with fairly low headcount. Hyperscalers in particular currently can’t scale out very easily necessarily because many of the DCs have hit local power restrictions so compute power efficiency and density are the primary means to grow capacity. Think apartments in skyscrapers v row houses. So electricity _efficiency_ is what is being sought rather than just pure operational costs of the DCs. I’m the northern Virginia exurbs hyperscalers have bought out so much of the land it’s now perhaps greater land use than family farms there and starting to encroach upon housing developments. Locals also complain about the noise (there’s a sort of hum from the sheer mass of air and whirring fans) from DCs impacting health. Some areas have been reporting increased rates of hearing disabilities although I can’t recall a study being conducted yet.