Why "pnpm run build" requires connection to DB?

[lispercat]

In my case I created an app using "npx create-payload-app@latest" using MongoDB.
Now when I build it it fails with " Collecting page data .[21:07:23] ERROR: Error: cannot connect to MongoDB. Details: getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN mongo"
Is it possible to disable this?
What instance of DB is it trying to connect to? dev or prod?

[lispercat]

I found some useful info at https://payloadcms.com/docs/production/building-without-a-db-connection