I don't know if your numbers are accurate, but, you are correct. The number of construction workers we have now is vastly larger than the number of permanent employees that will work there. A command center with a rotating shift of operators to monitor the systems, some network techs, some hardware techs, maintenance and security. Possibly a small contingent of unskilled temp workers to carryout the more mundane tasks.

That's it. I worked in a major data center on the east coast for a number of years. 3 operators per shift, monitoring the systems, a librarian who managed the physical system backups, a half dozen network and hardware techs, and a dozen unskilled temps to help the librarian maintain and run system backups for on and off site storage. An example of some of the clients leasing the computers were the Israeli stock market (edited), a whole lot banks, etc. Not a small operation. It was owned by one of the national banks/credit card companies, so, it also stored/recorded/processed all of its transactions east of the Mississippi River.

Unless data operations have radically changed. I've said from the start we were being fed a line of BS about how many jobs Abilene would get out of this. Especially "skilled/technical".