To cure a Texan of his belief that everything is bigger in Texas, send him to China. Four months ago, Brad Gammons moved from Amarillo to Beijing to help IBM (IBM) land some of the $600 billion the Chinese government plans to spend over the next decade on its electrical network, especially on smart-grid technology to boost efficiency. Now the 50-year-old IBM vice-president marvels that “the scale and pace of how things move here is not something you experience anywhere else in the world.”
via A Power Play for China’s Electrical Grid – BusinessWeek.
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