>>5572642 lb

>All of it being collected, stored and mined under the Denver Airport. Out of sight. Out of mind.

And check this out...

>>5573134 lb

>https://www.denverpost.com/2018/11/16/facebook-opens-denver-office/

>Steve Politis, the on-site lead for the new office, said Facebook was attracted by the area’s “huge foundation” of telecommunications companies and talented network engineers and network security and software engineers.

Your theory is beginning to make a lot of sense. Airport was built right before the Denver telecom boom period of the 90s.

https://villagerpublishing.com/how-denver-gave-birth-to-the-cable-satellite-tv-telecommunications-industries/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_Technological_Center

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver

>Denver's location on the 105th meridian at over one mile (1.6 km) in elevation also enables it to be the largest city in the U.S. to offer a "one-bounce" real-time satellite uplink to six continents in the same business day. Qwest Communications, Dish Network Corporation, Starz-Encore, DIRECTV, and Comcast are a few of the many telecommunications companies with operations in the Denver area. These and other high-tech companies had a boom in Denver in the mid to late 1990s.