Ryan Hart lists the 20 most active general contractors he tracks on US data center projects, with 60 named projects such as DPR on Crusoe Stargate Abilene and Turner on Meta Hyperion. It is a ready who-is-building-what list for anyone selling into data center megaprojects. Hart sells a paid project tracker, and the article promotes it.
China Southern Power Grid and Huawei signed a deeper pact covering AI, power and compute coordination, and Dianhong, an OpenHarmony-based power IoT operating system that runs on 2,600+ Shenzhen grid terminals. China is standardizing the software under its grid devices. Many US utilities still stitch vendors together device by device.
Shenzhen's AI2 Robotics is mass-producing and shipping AlphaBot 2, including a three-year agreement for 1,000+ robots in display manufacturing at HKC and work at Dongfeng Liuzhou. Humanoids are getting real factory orders in China, not just demos.
FluentHMI-Studio is a C++ and Qt 6 desktop app where you drag widgets onto a screen and bind them to serial, TCP or MQTT data, including Modbus RTU and TCP. It exports a standalone operator app in under a second with no compiler. A free way to mock up an operator screen for a skid or test bench.
For controls techs and hardware engineers building quick operator screens.