Originally Posted by
warthog
Actually, you can't see what's over the horizon, PT. Of everyone here, you should be one of those who instinctively (feline genes) knows this is the case.
So quite a lot of what the hog thinks is going to happen in the future is processing. Huge number-chrunching facilities, which are given data to work on, but spit out only relatively small amounts of data.
Think Bitcoin. If PT had established a Bitcoin-mining operation next to Manapouri (with a contract for heavily-discounted power) in the early Bitcoin days, the coins would be ... virtually (see what the hog did there?) rolling in, and at quite a favourable cost.
Additionally, the connections between NZ and the rest of the world can only improve.
Especially with TEL/CNU starting to look like marginal players (CNU marginal in the sense that it loses much of the control over its destiny).
Interesting things are happening in the north of Sweden and Norway.