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Scott Sherrell said...

Another wonderful blog post, Ken. Thank you!

How might a planning project team have been able to determine the costs associated with the environmental maintenance and electrical costs that a given system would require, on top of the monthly rental amount? Because I am assuming that a business would have some idea of the workload that would be performed, would there have been a way to compare and contrast the total cost of different models given that same load?

I’m completely fascinated with trying to get my mind around how these systems were implemented and how companies could calculate their returns on the investment.

Apr 8, 2019, 12:13:20 AM

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