Welcome to the Magical Mystery Tour of the AI age
Source: Business Insider ·
Savvy operators are selling data center workers places to eat, sleep, park, and play to cash in on the AI gold rush.
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National Jobsite Catering serves about 1,500 meals on an average day at each of its dozen data center construction sites.Jason Andrew for BIAt 5 a.m. in Northern Virginia, chefs are already preparing chicken and chile roja enchiladas, fried shrimp tacos, and big batches of rice and beans to feed thousands of data center construction workers.By late morning, a crew brings the food from the off-site kitchen to a break tent where workers can pick up lunch without leaving the worksite. They don't pay: The Big Tech companies spending billions on AI infrastructure foot the bill.On an average day, National Jobsite Catering serves about 1,500 meals at each of its dozen data center construction sites across Northern Virginia, Texas, Ohio, Louisiana, Nevada, and Georgia, founder Scott Kaplan tells me. The busiest sites serve twice as many. After one to three years, the crews wrap up and move on. Kaplan, whose business used to consist of a fleet of food trucks catering one-off events along the…