AI data center gold rush feeds worker-economy startups: 1,500 lunches a day per site
asusarla · x · 2026-10-12
Business Insider reports on the entrepreneurial boom riding the AI data center construction wave. In hubs like Northern Virginia, startups are turning construction workers' everyday needs — lunch, parking, sleep — into big business. National Jobsite Catering serves 1,500 meals a day at each of its dozen data center sites, with Big Tech picking up the tab. The piece also questions how long hyperscalers' promised spillover benefits for host towns can last.
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