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Because they have the space. It’s hard for us Europeans to understand. In places where they don’t, they certainly go below ground - look at Microsoft’s parking garage in Redmond.
It's an abundant resource curse; land is the resource that is wasted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
So the question, then, is why build up at all. I'm guessing since this is the NSA lowering surface area for security was a factor.
My office complex is nearly 1 km from one end to the other and a whopping three stories tall, and the third floor is much smaller than the bottom two. If you count the parking lots, it's almost twice as big.