[msbarnett]

> You're proving my point, in that you don't see the situation holistically. You're assuming all "business" is tech. How about all the maintenance based services? Even inside tech, do you think all issue management in a giant data center is going to be handled by those 50 employees and not a slew of outside contractors?

I think that 50 full time employees are sufficient to manage the hardware maintenance issues that typically arise in a large data center, yeah. That's more-or-less the only reason to even have that many people on staff in a data center.

Building and A/C maintenance -- it's only one large building, and Des Moines has existing contractors fully capable of performing that kind of routine, infrequent servicing. This might stimulate one or two new hires at one or two firms, but I sincerely doubt it will require any more than that.

Literally nothing about this data center screams "slew of outside contractors" let alone "whole companies moving to Des Moines" to me.