A Bain partner says power, electrical labor and community opposition now gate the boom, and that a gigawatt campus looks more like a power project with a large computing load than a normal building job.
A Limble survey of 686 U.S. maintenance and operations professionals finds teams finish just 54% of scheduled preventive maintenance, and 47% of leaders report more than 10 hours of unplanned downtime in a typical month.
One agent checks photos of every tool and wire before and after a job. Hitachi reports up to 30% higher productivity, a vendor figure. The agents were built by the field crews who do the work.
Drivers cover Modbus, OPC UA, S7, EtherNet/IP, DNP3, IEC 61850 and more. An MCP gateway lets outside agents query devices with per-tool authorization.
For OT engineers: pull plant device data into one API and give an agent controlled access to it.