Most municipal infrastructure projects tend to be conservative and follow the last 100 years of water management policy: centralized processing and hard infrastructure.

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By moving IT infrastructure to a centralized computing "power plant" rather than hosting their own processing and storage, Carr says, companies are able to buy computing resources at lower prices and avoid large initial technology investments.

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