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Dataleo Insight · 2026-07-08· Infrastructure Planning

Power-planning software is becoming part of industrial Supply Chain architecture

Power-system planning increasingly determines whether industrial and AI capacity can be delivered on schedule.

FERC’s software conference highlights the growing role of grid-planning tools in industrial and AI-infrastructure decisions.

The affected decision is where and when factories, data centres and electrified assets can be committed. Value requires grid models to connect to project, equipment and construction plans.

The principal failure mode is an industrial plan whose assumed power availability exists only in long-term grid scenarios.