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?

I would assume that these people are there because they know what to do if something goes wrong.

I also have to assume they probably do rotations of control room and more active work, or it would get suuuuper boring real fast. Plus their skills would get rusty if nothing ever happened.

But maybe I’m overly optimistic.