The industrial AI record
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Clear filtersAmazon’s Texas AI campus clears a contested water hurdle.
A groundwater district approved limited well use for Amazon’s nearly 3,000-acre Wharton County campus, advancing construction while leaving cooling-water permits and a potential 780-megawatt load unresolved.
Taylor ties data-center growth to closed-loop cooling.
Taylor, Texas, negotiated proposed operating conditions for a 664-acre data-center campus with on-site generation, using annexation to require reclaimed-water closed-loop cooling, noise limits and developer-funded infrastructure.
Wildfire drones gain rugged lidar for heavy-lift autonomy.
Seneca has integrated Ouster’s rugged digital lidar into autonomous heavy-lift drones designed for fire-line cargo, terrain mapping, vegetation management and utility inspection.
Food-packaging robots move inside the PLC control stack.
Harpak-ULMA introduced modular hygienic robotic loaders that locate, inspect, pick and load food products while running robot motion through Rockwell Automation’s Logix programmable-controller environment.
A 3.5-megawatt chiller moves AI cooling onto direct current.
Trane Technologies, a heating and cooling equipment manufacturer, demonstrated a laboratory chiller that accepts 800-volt direct current and delivers more than 3.5 megawatts of cooling for high-density AI campuses.
Coca-Cola’s mixed-case picking becomes a six-robot system.
Swire Coca-Cola, a Coca-Cola bottling partner in China and the western United States, has put three heavy-load picking robots and three automated guided vehicles into commercial operation at its Zhengzhou plant.
Europe puts €700 million behind grid-equipment factories.
A new EIB–BNP Paribas risk-sharing program will support guarantees for European grid-component makers, targeting the equipment bottleneck behind electrification and large-load growth.
Momenta sets a thousand-vehicle test for robotaxi scale.
Momenta is targeting several thousand robotaxis by the end of 2027 after deploying more than 100 vehicles across three countries and expanding its test footprint.
Amazon doubles robot-making capacity with a fourth plant.
Amazon plans a $100 million-plus Indiana manufacturing hub that will bring its robot-making network to four plants and support North American fulfillment automation.
Fleet AI moves from demos into dispatch and maintenance.
Trimble released customer-ready AI for route planning, trailer orchestration, repair invoices and transport-management workflows across physical fleet operations.
MoveIt’s production stack moves closer to robot silicon.
Qualcomm plans to combine its Dragonwing robotics compute with PickNik’s MoveIt motion-planning ecosystem while preserving the project’s open-source, hardware-agnostic model.
OT security guidance catches cloud-connected operations.
NIST’s draft fourth revision of its OT-security guide explicitly covers IIoT and cloud convergence while expanding asset-management, detection and zero-trust guidance.
Industrial AI enters a live mechanical-integrity workflow.
LTTS and Cognite have begun converting a top-ten oil-and-gas company’s manual mechanical-integrity process into a contextualized digital workflow designed to expose risk faster.
Wind-turbine wear sensing wins another long-term supply cycle.
Vestas will continue using Gastops’ real-time oil-debris sensors across its turbine platforms under a renewed long-term agreement beginning January 1, 2027.
Factories cross five million operating robots.
The global operating stock of industrial robots reached 5.079 million in 2025 as factories installed a record 603,000 units, an 11% rebound after four years of largely flat annual deployment.
Inspection robots gain credentials for locked plant doors.
An ANYmal inspection robot used a secure digital credential to authenticate and pass controlled doors autonomously during a multiweek pilot at GE Vernova’s Whitegate Power Station in Ireland.
Unpermitted generators put an AI campus on a deadline.
New Jersey fined DataOne $1.07 million for installing and operating 62 large natural-gas generators without state air permits at its Vineland data-center campus.
Ship-maintenance robots move coating work off scaffolds.
RobotPlusPlus demonstrated a magnetic coating robot with overspray recovery for ships, tanks and bridges, alongside ATEX-certified cleaning and blasting systems for hazardous industrial maintenance.
Europe will label data-center energy and water performance.
The European Commission proposed a common sustainability rating for individual data centers above 500 kilowatts, with the first labels expected in 2027.
Alibaba’s AI expansion becomes a 20-gigawatt infrastructure bet.
Alibaba Cloud will open its first regions in Türkiye, Finland and the Netherlands and expand five existing markets as it targets more than 20 gigawatts of global data-center capacity by 2032.
Texas froze data-center permits behind a 470-gigawatt queue.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered the state environmental agency to halt permits sought by data centers until electricity and water audits are complete, extending an interconnection pause across the wider state approval process.
Victoria makes new data centers bring their own infrastructure.
Victoria’s Sustainable Data Centre Action Plan requires new campuses to secure renewable generation and storage, pay for network connections and upgrades, and use recycled or other non-drinking water for cooling.
Atlas gets a factory training ground before mass deployment.
Boston Dynamics opened the Robotics Metaplant Application Center inside Hyundai Motor Group’s Georgia plant to train Atlas humanoids on logistics and parts sequencing before moving toward assembly and heavy lifting.
Google backs 96 megawatts of nuclear uprates.
Georgia Power signed an agreement with Google to support upgrades at two of its nuclear plants that could add about 96 megawatts of round-the-clock electricity as data centers and other large loads accelerate demand.
Virginia targets secrecy around 25-megawatt data centers.
Virginia’s Data Center Accountability Framework would ban nondisclosure agreements around proposed projects and require local approval for any facility using more than 25 megawatts, while tightening standards for grid costs, water, noise and backup generation.
Rare-earth separation gets an autonomous chemistry lab.
USA Rare Earth, Riven Systems and Pasqal will combine autonomous experiments with classical and quantum machine learning to search for better rare-earth separation molecules, then validate promising candidates at USA Rare Earth’s Wheat Ridge research facility.
YILPORT’s crane optimizer lifted yard performance 21%.
YILPORT says crane moves per hour at its Gebze container terminal increased 21% within three months after it deployed Kaleris RTG Optimization across 31 rubber-tired gantry cranes. The software assigns work dynamically to reduce unproductive travel and idle time.
Spirit AI put dozens of humanoids onto production lines.
Spirit AI has deployed tens of Moz1 wheeled humanoid robots on production lines at battery maker CATL and JD.com. The company trains its models primarily on real-world motion data collected by about 1,000 contractors rather than relying mainly on simulation.
Fujifilm plans an $83 million materials plant beside Tata’s fab.
Fujifilm plans to invest about ₹800 crore ($83 million) in a phased semiconductor-materials plant at Dholera under an agreement with Tata Electronics. The facility would supply high-purity process chemicals near Tata’s $11 billion wafer fab.
CXMT is adding a NAND pilot line in Beijing.
ChangXin Memory Technologies plans to build a NAND flash R&D production line at its new Beijing memory facility and has discussed the program with potential customers. The move would take China’s leading DRAM producer into persistent storage used by AI servers and data centers.