One HP customer has 30, 000 servers on a grid to provide intraday value at risk (VaR).

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This is where the Grid would have its greatest value.

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The cells could then reduce peak power demands air conditioning would be making on the electricity grid, leveraging their own economic value.

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It also facilitates the many other currency features that are so important to users, but not to governments, such as unrestricted person-to-person payments, user-defined anonymity and untraceability, near-immediate bearer settlement, transaction irreversibility, reliable store of value, multi-grid capable, and decentralized processing.

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In this scenario, the added value of staying online when the grid goes down is like gravy.

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It shows that Singapore is moving up the value-chain ladder and is staying plugged into the global electronics grid.

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