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23 Wells that missed an update … oops 😅

When Baker Hughes deployed Leucipa across Expand Energy's 5,782 gas wells in January 2026, the press announcement omitted 23 Marcellus wells — not from oversight, but because their Honeywell SCADA units serialised timestamps in a deprecated binary format the ingest pipeline could not parse. The piece uses this single edge case to examine the actual cost of industrial AI deployment at scale: the coverage gap that every vendor accepts and few operators audit.