Why does a 500+ acre data center have a tiny parking lot? Because almost no one works there. These sites are not offices or factories. They’re giant machines. Once built, a hyper scale campus often runs with 50–200 people on site — technicians, security, facilities. Highly automated. Mostly monitored remotely. The land isn’t for people. It’s for: - massive power gear - cooling systems - security buffers - future expansion Construction is the opposite: thousands of workers for a couple years. Then they leave. That’s why the building is huge and the parking lot looks like it belongs to a dentist’s office. So, explain to me again why giving up 500+acres for a data center that destroys the resources of the land around them and will only employ 50-200 (mostly H-1B's) is so beneficial we must bow down to them? Photo Credit: Reuters, Data Center Knowledge, MIT Technology Review, and Virginia Mercury.