[mc32]

You're right. My point is a lot of innovation goes into data centers (as well as distribution centers) and necessarily it's not downtown.

[user5994461]

There was another topic on HN talking about these datacenters.

Less than 50 people work in a typical datacenters. All the R&D to make the datacenter is done outside of it, in R&D centers.

[dgemm]

To be fair, the discussion is about corporate offices and not DCs. Amazon may build DCs out of town for servers but they build skyscrapers downtown for people.