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The Second Load: Why Robotics Will Hit the Grid After Data Centres
Week 37 measured the megawatts and connection years behind data centres. Week 38 adds the load nobody modelled into that same system: the robot fleet already running today, quietly, on ordinary factory feeders.
A data centre is a point load, one dot utilities, regulators and boards can see. A robot fleet is a thousand small dots nobody mapped: arms, AMRs, cobots, docks, vision PCs, cooling, individually modest, in aggregate material, and sitting on existing feeders rather than dedicated substations. Today’s ~5 million-unit industrial fleet already draws ~78 TWh a year, 20–25% of global…
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