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throwaway2037 12 hours ago

As I understand, data centers from hyperscalers (Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Oracle, IBM, Alibaba, etc.) don't create many long-term jobs. Mostly they create short term jobs in the construction industry. Data centers from non-hyperscalers, like Equinix, probably create more long-term jobs because companies rent space, then need (near constant) changes to their hardware that requires "remote hands". I think hyperscalers mostly install monolithic hardware that requires almost no regular changes, except for break-fix.

yanslookup 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Having worked in a hyper scaler on a system to orchestrate hw breakfix, it requires a lot of hands. We replaced thousands of hard drives alone per day... And racks are constantly coming and going. Hyperscaler DCs are busy places.

zipy124 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Busy places but not compared to similar businesses of their capital value I imagine.

gruez 10 hours ago | parent [-]

>but not compared to similar businesses of their capital value

So? it's not like if hyperscalers weren't building datacenters, the billions that would otherwise be spent on GPUs would be spent on 10 car factories or whatever. The only reason the billions was being invested in the first place was because there's a craze for AI datacenters