Electric utilities resist early AI adoption by aiming to be fast followers
Laurent Bueneau · How AI is solving real utility challenges [partner content] · Mar 11, 2025 · at 2:37
Laurent Bueneau, a power and utilities expert at Microsoft, discusses organizational hesitation and adoption barriers for AI within the electric utility industry.
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“So utilities show some resistance. Often one of the difficulties we have is that our customers want to be fast followers. And in order to be fast followers, you need to follow someone. So someone has to go first. That's definitely an issue in this sector in particular.”
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