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It has to already have all the data in it; it's not like Ash (or Red/Blue/etc) actually wrote anything in it. It just doesn't let you access the data until you're near or have captured a pokemon it had data on. Because it also doesn't have data on some of the unique pokemon from what I recall from one of the movies. Tho it does have data on Mewtwo in the game, and that mofo was made in a supposedly top secret lab. Oak must have been involved in his creation... ๐ค
My perception was that he gave him a display to view his encyclopedia. Professor Oak hadn't logged any Pokemon yet, but then when you threw a PokeBall the Pokemon was transported into the storage somewhere, Professor Oak would study the Pokemon and make the data available to Ash. The issue with my line of thinking is that the transported Pokemon being stored don't get healed over time, so Professor Oak is like huh, that's Pikachu is fucked up, oh well I already studied it so no point in caring about it at all.
He only gets data, but does not have the tools the pokecenter does to heal them. Like, a doctor could diagnose you over the phone or a zoom call; but they can't administer medicine that way.
They did from FireRed onwards, didn't they?