"Even though infrastructure development is slow, the other two pillars of the economy — i.e., domestic consumption and commodity exports — are doing well," he said.
The good news for Google is that even though Infrastructure as a Service has been around for more than a decade, in many ways it's still a nascent market, a point that Greene was happy to make at the Goldman Sachs conference last month.
The city plans to continue to transfer about $21 million from the electrical side of the utility to the General Fund and cap capital improvement spending at $8.2 million, even though infrastructure needs outpace the available budget.
He fails to mention the US investigation which found that hefty budget cuts had left the plant "vulnerable to catastrophe", and that BP had targeted savings of 25% in 1999 and a further 25% in 2005 at the facility "even though much of the refinery's infrastructure and process equipment were in disrepair".
But even though its infrastructure circumvents banks, TransferWise still has to comply with the same AML/CFT regulations to "know your customer".
The utility collects less revenue, even though the infrastructure costs — from expensive power plants to transmission lines and maintenance crews — remain the same.
Because of a lack of patient education and community resources, care can be fragmented, and there is still no great incentive for the general practitioner to follow-up with the patient even though the infrastructure and resources are in place.
The downside (which became apparent on a side trip to the much poorer, independent sister islands of Western Samoa) is that the islanders seem to take a certain comfort level for granted, even though the infrastructure needs more attention.
Even though the infrastructure for Argentina is enough to meet the energy requirement, its commercial production has started and is expected to expand.
"Even though the infrastructure is there - the stadiums, the hotels - you need at least two or three years to prepare the country to host a major tournament like that.
"Reclassification would create a major drag on new and improved broadband infrastructure, even though substantial investment in such infrastructure is precisely what is needed to keep pace with exponentially increasing consumer demands for bandwidth.
