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You're right. My point is a lot of innovation goes into data centers (as well as distribution centers) and necessarily it's not downtown.
There was another topic on HN talking about these datacenters.
Less than 50 people work in a typical datacenters. All the R&D to make the datacenter is done outside of it, in R&D centers.
To be fair, the discussion is about corporate offices and not DCs. Amazon may build DCs out of town for servers but they build skyscrapers downtown for people.