The 72-ton machines are retrofitted with software and hardware from Built Robotics and can work upward of 12 hours a day, picking up and driving 200-pound steel beams into the ground.
Noah Ready-Campbell, the company’s cofounder and CEO, told Business Insider they are laying the foundation for the solar power infrastructure tied to Meta’s massive Hyperion AI data center in Richland Parish.
“The pressure is on to build out the grid at a pace we’ve never seen before,” Ready-Campbell said.
The Louisiana project is a glimpse of the future of construction unfolding in the present, with fewer workers handling dangerous, repetitive tasks by hand, and more autonomous machines taking them on to quickly build out new infrastructure.
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