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What can retail employment tell us about office employment? Since 2019, warehouse jobs are up 50% while retail jobs are flat. Data centers & offices may follow a similar path, with 2 differences: data centers need fewer ppl than warehouses, and office jobs will prob decline rather than stay flat.

6/10/26, 12:23 pm0 reposts1 like

Dean Lee

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Warehouses absorbed retail workers because fulfillment stayed labor-dense per square foot. Hyperscale data centers invert that model. A hundred-megawatt campus runs on forty techs, substituting cognitive payroll with depreciating silicon and grid capacity.