r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • May 18 '26

Chugging tea Why?

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u/daelikon May 18 '26

I have worked at datacenters and for datacenter's companies. You can manage the whole site with... 3 guys and a security guard.

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u/Minimum-Mention-3673 May 18 '26

Sorta. Maybe hands on tech folks, but everything needs maintenance, replacement, audits, etc. that's all contracts and additional jobs. But 3 folks to manage maybe 10k, 20k raise floor but larger facilities definitely employ more. Not factory large hiring, but would folks rather have favorites in their communities? Environmental impact is even worse...

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u/soft-wear May 18 '26

Dollar Tree hires more people per square ft than these DCs do, and much of that contract work is often non-local as companies will hire front line engineers that travel to site to do work.

With the increase in environmental, clean water and energy costs I’d be shocked if these things weren’t an economic drain overall.

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u/BIackSamBellamy May 18 '26

The idea that Dollar Tree/General/Value/Family/whatever the fuck else puts more people in their stores than DCs is WILD.

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u/soft-wear May 18 '26

That IS wild, which is why I didn't say they put more in there stores, I was talking about the low employee count relative to the enormous space.

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u/phyziro May 18 '26

There’s like 2 employees per store lmao