“I clearly hit a nerve in the industry, when judging by the number of individuals who reached out to chat,” he wrote in an followup blog post. “In total, I’ve spoken with over two-dozen rather senior people in the datacenter universe, and there was an interesting and overriding theme to our conversations; no one understands how the financial math is supposed to work. They are as baffled as I am, and they do this for a living.”