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a cathedral of stuff, where everything you'll ever order is already waiting in the dark

means A large building used to store goods, materials, or merchandise, typically before they're distributed or sold.

from A plain compound of "ware" and "house." The "ware" here is the same Old English "waru," meaning goods or merchandise — the very word that still lives on in "hardware," "software," and "wares" hawked at market. So a warehouse is literally a goods-house, a name as honest and unadorned as the buildings themselves, in use in English since at least the late medieval period.

robot run
Amazon deploys over 750,000 robots inside its facilities
acre giants
Largest ones cover 90-plus football fields of floor
cold extremes
Frozen-storage warehouses run near minus 30 Celsius
word origin
From French wares plus house, simply goods-keeping
techno roots
Empty ones birthed underground rave culture in 1980s
for instance

amazon fulfillment center phx3 — phoenix, arizona facility handling 800+ million items annually for amazon

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