Who Owns Robot Power Planning — Operations, Energy, or IT?

Rene Grywnow’s 5-Minute Business Punch · Oct 8, 2026 · 5m

Part I traced embodied AI’s energy problem into the actuator. Part II follows directly: the actuator creates the load, someone has to plan it, and a robot cell has three parents and no owner.

Operations owns takt and uptime; energy or facilities owns feeder, contract and peak; IT owns the agent, twin and edge box. Each optimizes correctly for its own mandate, which is exactly why the gap is invisible until the meter spikes. A robot rated “only 3 kW” is invisible per line until forty dock in the same quarter-hour; edge inference gets booked as an IT load, not part of the cell’s electrical…