We've spent this summer in factories, on solar construction sites, and across outdoor industrial yards - installing the infrastructure that increasingly sits underneath cameras, machines, and AI applications.
At the same time, billions of dollars are flowing into Physical AI.
Those look like two separate stories. We think they're the same one.
On the manufacturing floor at Hypertherm, which has been building precision cutting systems in New Hampshire for decades, some of the equipment has been running reliably longer than most of the software in the plant has existed.
"Some of these devices are really old. I recall showing one of the Ramen engineers equipment connecting through a serial port - serial ports haven't been around for 15 years."
Rob Kay, IT Operations, Hypertherm
Getting that machine onto the network took hours. Getting it to say anything useful took weeks.
Bridging a serial port is a known kind of work. What comes after it is not. The machine is online, the packets are flowing, and the plant still cannot read what any of it means - the cycle times, the fault codes, the utilization are all in there, encoded in a dialect defined by a vendor decades ago and documented almost nowhere.
Connectivity gets a machine online. Interpretation makes it legible. Both are infrastructure - and a plant can be fully wired and still completely dark.
The Hypertherm floor: mixed-vintage machines, decades of accumulated conduit.
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