11 Jun 2026: Palantir, Planning Rules, Strikes, and a Nuclear Win

McCarthy is treating AI as company infrastructure, not another isolated pilot. Lombardy is reshaping data-centre economics through planning rules. Sellafield shows how quickly specialist labour risk can disrupt delivery, while Bruce Power offers the opposite signal with a nuclear refurbishment completed seven months early. Enlaye, meanwhile, is betting that construction teams want AI to find risk across the full project stack.

01 · Enterprise AI

McCarthy makes Palantir part of the operating stack

McCarthy Building Companies has signed a multiyear agreement with Palantir to develop AI capabilities across the business. This is not another narrow tool for one department. It suggests McCarthy wants a shared data and software layer connecting project, commercial, workforce, and operational systems.

The question for ConTech founders is getting harder: are you the system, a layer inside the system, or a feature the platform can absorb. (Construction Dive)

02 · Data-Centre Regulation

Lombardy rewrites the site economics

Lombardy has approved a new framework for data-centre development around Milan. The region wants to speed up approvals and steer projects towards brownfield industrial sites, while applying much higher construction charges to schemes on farmland, parks, and environmentally sensitive land.

Power is no longer the only early filter. Policy, grid access, remediation, and planning charges can change the viability of a site before anyone prices the building. (Reuters)

03 · Workforce Risk

Sellafield faces another week of disruption

Almost 2,000 construction workers at Sellafield are preparing for a fresh week-long strike after talks over a site allowance failed to progress. On a nuclear estate, where security clearance, specialist knowledge, and controlled work sequences matter, replacing an experienced worker is far harder than simply filling a headcount gap.

Megaproject schedules model steel and concrete in detail. Labour relations can still remain invisible until the gates close. (Construction Enquirer)

04 · Major Project Delivery

Bruce Power finishes seven months early

Bruce Power has completed its Unit 3 refurbishment seven months ahead of schedule. That matters because nuclear refurbishment combines dense sequencing, specialist labour, strict quality controls, and very little room for improvisation.

The real test is whether the next unit inherits the planning, supplier knowledge, and production learning. One early project is good execution. Repeating it would prove the system. (Daily Commercial News)

05 · Construction Risk

Enlaye wants AI to find conflicts across the project stack

Enlaye has raised seed funding to expand a platform designed to identify delays, errors, and conflicts across multiple sources of project data. Instead of reviewing one programme or document in isolation, the product looks at relationships between schedules, files, and activities, then compares them with patterns from earlier projects.

Construction does not lack warnings. It lacks warnings that reach the right person early enough to change the outcome. The product test is whether Enlaye can reduce surprises without creating another queue of alerts teams learn to ignore. (Engineering News-Record)

The thread

McCarthy is trying to connect enterprise data before adding more isolated AI. Lombardy is shaping data-centre delivery through land and planning economics. Sellafield shows how specialist labour can become a programme constraint overnight. Bruce Power shows what happens when learning survives across a repeatable delivery programme. Enlaye is betting that risk analysis works best across the full project environment, not inside one silo. Delivery improves when decisions, data, people, and incentives are designed as one system.

One practical move this week

Take one major risk on a live project and trace it across the full system. Which data reveals it, which person owns it, which contract shapes the response, and which decision must happen next. If those answers sit in different places with no clear connection, the problem is not visibility. It is operating design.

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