Brian Potter

Their wordsIn particular, operating a data center requires large amounts of electricity, and available power is fast becoming the binding constraint on data center construction.

Their wordsPolitical costs and civic opposition will often make a technology unviable regardless of how the dollars and cents add up.

Their wordsIn general, housing trends are largely driven by a small number of outlier metros.

Their wordsIn many cases, the person specifying a new system won’t capture the upside from actually using it - they’ll be under a sort of reverse moral hazard, where the benefits accrue to the rest of the project team, but the risks will accrue only to them.

Their wordsThe upside of any given project is usually a single-digit profit margin. But the downside is “whatever your company is worth”