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increases the risk for failure. Learn from the
business models we have with our other service
infrastructures: water, gas, telephony, electricity,
mass transportation, the Internet, and the World
Wide Web. Despite this wide variety of areas,
there is only a handful of successful business
models: on one end of the spectrum, you pay the
total price, and the whole thing is yours (CapEx).
Or you pay only a share of it, but pay the other
share on a per usage basis. Or you rent every-
thing, and pay chunks back on a regular basis,
like a subscription fee or leasing. Or you pay just
for what you use (OpEx). Sometimes, however,
there are 'hidden' or secondary applications. For
example, electrical power alone doesn't help. It's
only useful if it generates something, e.g. light, or
heat, or cooling. And this infrastructure is what
creates a whole new industry of appliances: light
bulbs, heaters, refrigerators, and so on. Back to
Grids and clouds: providing the right (transparent)
infrastructure (services) and the right (simple)
business model will most likely create a new set
of services which most probably will improve our
quality of life in the future.

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