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Energy Data as Machine Intelligence

Why power and current traces might be the most underrated sensors in a factory.

Mar 1, 2026 AImanufacturingenergysystems-thinking

This is a placeholder essay.

I’ll eventually write about how treating energy data as a first-class signal changes the way we see machines, processes, and waste.

For now, consider this a stub for longer-form thinking on:

  • what energy reveals that traditional SCADA tags miss,
  • how to combine physics intuition with ML,
  • and how these ideas show up in real deployments.

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