Microsoft dropped its anchor deal for Nscale's planned 50 MW site in Loughton, Essex, after warnings the grid might not deliver power until the early to mid 2030s. The plan was 23,040 Nvidia GB300 GPUs. The customer, chips and money were in place, and the interconnection date still decided it.
Found via Kyler Schmitz on LinkedIn
Work orders follow a real life cycle with an audit trail, and a read-only mode leaves the write tools out entirely. It ships with a made-up plant and a companion skill that teaches the agent the safe order of calls.
For maintenance planners and reliability engineers: a working pattern for letting an agent touch work orders without giving it free rein.
The agents use data already in Motive's fleet platform to contact drivers, create work orders and alert managers without someone working every alert by hand. Motive has not released independently checked results, and its savings figures are vendor-reported.
The built-in PLC runs a subset of Structured Text and Ladder Diagram, and a desktop app connects a real PLC over Modbus TCP, OPC UA, EtherNet/IP, S7 or ADS. The team says it is in early development and breaking changes can land in any update.
For controls engineers and trainers: test PLC logic on a virtual palletizing line without buying hardware or PLC software.
