Warehouses Increasingly Turn To Automation, But That Creates New Problems

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Warehouses Increasingly Turn To Automation, But That Creates New Problems

The companies that occupy industrial logistics properties are having a hard time finding workers, pushing them toward automation technology to move goods through their warehouses.

But bringing in robots isn’t a simple solution. It doesn’t work for some facilities that weren’t built with automation in mind, and the technology requires warehouses to use much more power, a resource that has become scarce in many regions as the booming data center sector overwhelms utilities.

“There is competition of power,” said Powers Brown Architecture principal Reinaldo Venancio, who said he has worked on automated warehouse projects that require more power. “So we're competing all the time with data center sites.”

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