The hype all sounds well and good, but it seems to be what they're really offering is an opportunity to do "large scale" monte-carlo simulations. Which is also

The hype all sounds well and good, but it seems to be what they're really offering is an opportunity to do "large scale" monte-carlo simulations. Which is also a great thing, but the results of said simulations will only be as good as the detail to which they are modeled. The example that they give about utilities modeling usage in a city is great, but someone is going to spend a whole lot of time modeling the details of the city, and constantly verifying that those results match up with the real world. I spent a lot of time doing these kinds of simulations in school...