Shouldn't be too surprising. As someone who works in the trades, even the limited amount of data center construction happening in my state is keeping us busy. I can only imagine how busy it is in Northern Virginia. Having said that, no one enjoys working on these things. The pace and scale of the projects are very demanding, and everyone has something to bitch about on any given day. Work is work, though. I hear that a lot of firms are struggling to find work in other states, so data centers may very well be a life raft for some unions.