In a podcast clip, investor Gavin Baker argues data center deals now often include behind-the-meter power and community spending. He says plumbers, electricians and HVAC contractors get steady ongoing work from them. The trades are the bottleneck in the build.
Code review for PLC logic is coming, and OT teams should set the rules before vendors do.
For Controls engineers and OT security teams:
Energy Secretary Chris Wright designated helium a critical material under the Energy Act of 2020, citing its role in semiconductor manufacturing and advanced energy technology. The move opens more federal financing to helium producers. Helium comes out of natural gas processing, so a chip supply worry lands on gas producers and processors.
An unofficial MCP server on the SOLIDWORKS COM API sketches parts, builds assemblies, makes drawings, exports STEP and DXF and runs static stress studies, with failed features rolled back. The author rebuilt it after finding about 115 of 187 tools in an earlier server broken or silently wrong.
For mechanical and design engineers on SOLIDWORKS: note the README warns screenshots and geometry go to the model provider.