Modern large-scale datacenters are pretty neat. I recommend visiting a datacenter if you ever spend a chunk of time working for one of the FAANG companies... as a software engineer, I used to just think of it as a big room where you stick computers, and it kind of is that, but at the same time there is a lot of advanced work around power systems, cooling systems, and all this hardware that I usually have the luxury of ignoring.<p>I visited the Facebook datacenter in Fort Worth and was surprised how many people there formerly worked on submarines. I guess the jobs are similar, you are maintaining a system of advanced electronics in a controlled environment.
People have a tendency to confuse this kind of <i>business decision</i> as something philanthropic, as if the great people of Kansas need this <i>more</i> than they will tolerate it.<p>Non-story.