[beachstartup]

i'll speak to what i know -- an equinix datacenter probably employs about 20 people, most of them security staff.

most of the people who work on the actual facility are vendor staff, i.e. hvac specialists, power system specialists, the people from caterpillar that maintain the diesel gens, etc. for that matter, even security is outsourced (but they are still full time @ the facility).

everyone else is a customer, coming in and out to do internet-y things in the cloud aka working on computers in datacenters, same as it ever was.

[acveilleux]

OVH does mostly dedicated server so they may find it economical to have slightly more operations staff. The job count also includes the US HQ so sales/management type positions.