Well, hang on, the brief TechCrunch article we're discussing here links to two different Bloomberg articles. The first is from 2018 about "housing for men worki

Well, hang on, the brief TechCrunch article we're discussing here links to two different Bloomberg articles. The first is from 2018 about "housing for men working in remote oil fields", the second from 2026 about a data center in Dickens Country, Texas. I think you're getting overly fixated on "remote Canadian" here. West Texas is plenty remote. Those temporary workers in Dickens County must far outnumber the local population. If people wanted to commute, where are they going to commute from? The closest big city is Dallas, four hours away. (Edit: I tell a lie, Lubbock is closer if that counts.) It sounds like you're maybe envisaging a Googleplex, a cool campus where young college hires will want to come and hang out with like-minded peers (and work for long hours as a convenient side-effect). I definitely think it's going to be much more like an oil rig -- people will be paid well, and a decent amount of money will be thrown at entertainment and benefits, but fundamentally it's a place to house hundreds of men who have no reason to be there except that the work has to happen at that specific site. This article and the linked ones specifically talk about "man camps", not even something like "company towns" where they're maybe trying to establish an actual long-term community.