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Re:Microsoft had three staff at Australian data centre campu... by 22c on Monday September 04, 2023 @09:49AM (#37380459)
0 - 2 staff in a typical DC is not unusual at all, with people who are on-call usually within a 30 minute drive.

Larger DCs can and do have more staff on-site 24/7 and typically the amount of staff on-site at any given time is driven by SLAs.

I expect the DC in TFA to return to lower staff levels once they've worked on reducing their total "time to restart chiller" or reduced the amount of manual work involved in doing so.

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Re:Microsoft had three staff at Australian data centre campu... by mtmail on Monday September 04, 2023 @10:25AM (#37380784)
Still we read how DCs are a job generator. E.g. "One hopes for hundreds of jobs for locals." https://cryptoquorum.com/oman-opens-cryptocurrency-mining-ce...
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Re:Microsoft had three staff at Australian data centre campu... by ceejayoz on Monday September 04, 2023 @10:33AM (#37380850)
These usually mean temporary construction jobs. Politicians don’t like to point that out.
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Re:Microsoft had three staff at Australian data centre campu... by toast0 on Monday September 04, 2023 @12:52PM (#37382260)
Yeah, that's counting construction jobs like the sibling said, or just unfounded optimism.

A datacenter with tight SLAs probably needs one 24/7 tech and one 24/7 security guard. That's acheivable with 5 jobs for each, so 10 jobs total. Maybe a couple more techs if the ticket volume is high. Never going to be hundreds of permanent jobs.

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Re:Microsoft had three staff at Australian data centre campu... by lithos on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @08:19AM (#37390676)
Yeah Northern Virginia trapped themselves with that thinking. They can't stop building Datacenters, less they lose tens of thousands of jobs in the region. And the Datacenters know this, that they can beat concessions out of politicians for it.
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