
IFS Industrial Index 2026: AI Agents Lift Field Productivity →
In the IFS Industrial Index 2026 survey, firms report AI gains in reliability and delivery. UK firm PHS raised technician jobs per day from 18.5 to over 26.
Keven · Original writing

In the IFS Industrial Index 2026 survey, firms report AI gains in reliability and delivery. UK firm PHS raised technician jobs per day from 18.5 to over 26.

PJM's 2028/2029 capacity auction cleared at the $325/MW-day cap and fell 6,831 MW short of its reliability requirement as data centers lift the load forecast.

Stanford's Paper2Agent turns a paper with code into an AI agent that answers plain-language questions and runs analyses. Knowledge must be executable.

CoreWeave's physical AI head Richard Ahlfeld says models most often fail because training data never captured the critical moments; energy sites face this too.