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Mark Taylor
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#energytransition at . Opinions my own.
Londonkayrros.comJoined February 2011

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"In one day, avg. data center could use 300K gallons of water to cool itself — same water consumption as 100K homes, according to researchers at Virginia Tech who also estimated that 1/5 data centers draws water from stressed watersheds mostly in the west"
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One mistake that people make when crafting Product Strategy is that they try to make it inspiring. This makes your strategy fluffy, even suboptimal. For your strategy, optimize for “rigorous & clear” not “inspiring”. Your Mission & Vision can (and should) do the job of inspiring.
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Wondering what it feels like to be an LP in a fund that just spent $350M to invest in a startup whose business is "condos but with a party coordinator and singles mixers". Surely just parking your money in the S&P 500 or NASDAQ is a better investment than that?
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Can someone explain the value/benefit of lumping E+S+G into one "thing"? Seems to me it's a cynical approach by corporations to lump all their "do good" stuff into an isolated effort, separate from their core business operations.
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MISO's board approved 18 new transmission lines today, enabling 53,000 MW of new, low-cost renewable energy projects. A big milestone, as it's the single largest transmission expansion enabling clean energy in 🇺🇸 history. But much more still needed.
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