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So, in the bottom picture, the staff can only passively look at the far away screens?

“No touchy the keyboard!”

Good catch, wonder why they’re so far away.
To avoid accidentally fucking something up by bumping a key? Maybe they only pull them forward when they have to change something.
It’s probably also highly automated and the staff’s job is just to watch for irregularities and alert the necessary teams.
I mean, I’m all for giving jobs to humans and all, but isn’t monitoring a bunch of numbers and sending an alert when they go wrong one of the few things computers are actually objectively better at than humans are?
Aside from redundancy being an important safety thing, I'd guess they also have a pretty good idea what to do if something goes wrong.