Strategic approaches to AI adoption and integration
The models became a commodity. The durable advantage isn't which AI lab you rent from — it's owning the capability inside your own walls, on open models, with your data never leaving.
Stanford's 2026 AI Index reveals three findings that explain why most energy-sector AI initiatives stall — and how to sequence adoption so risk and value match at every step.
Your engineers are already using ChatGPT. Your traders might be feeding market data into Claude. Your compliance team doesn't know about any of it. Welcome to Shadow AI — and in the power sector, the stakes are uniquely high.