This isn't a very credible counter; being locked in because it was cheap to get hooked is exactly how we got ourselves into our previous disasters. In fact, unt

This isn't a very credible counter; being locked in because it was cheap to get hooked is exactly how we got ourselves into our previous disasters. In fact, until open source we kind of stumbled from one into the other. As for comparing power utilities to public cloud, I don't think the two are remotely comparable within our timeframes -- utilities are highly regulated and provide an almost entirely undifferentiated service. Public clouds are the opposite, and that's why you want to be mindful of developing your codebase to an API you pay rent for.