{"id":238342,"date":"2026-06-04T10:07:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/engineered-for-the-future"},"modified":"2026-06-04T10:07:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:07:28","slug":"engineered-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/engineered-for-the-future","title":{"rendered":"Engineered for the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineered-for-the-future.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Buildings account for 30\u201340 percent of global energy expenditure and more than half of global electricity consumption. But the most advanced smart buildings\u2014those with full automation, AI controls, and on-site generation\u2014can achieve energy reductions of 50\u201370 percent. Scaled across the built environment, that translates to 60\u2013110 exajoules of energy saved per year\u2014that\u2019s more than the entire current energy consumption of the United States, or the total output of all the world\u2019s nuclear power plants combined.<\/p>\n<p>Transforming the buildings we already live and work in to become a part of the system itself that generates, stores, and manages energy efficiently could be the blueprint for the future of energy use, creation, and management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buildings account for 30\u201340 percent of global energy expenditure and more than half of global electricity consumption. But the most advanced smart buildings\u2014those with full automation, AI controls, and on-site generation\u2014can achieve energy reductions of 50\u201370 percent. Scaled across the built environment, that translates to 60\u2013110 exajoules of energy saved per year\u2014that\u2019s more than the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}