Why You've Never Heard of Schneider Electric

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · Oct 7, 2026 · 29m

Schneider Electric equipment is bolted to the wall of nearly every factory, office building, and data center you've ever walked through — and almost nobody outside the electrical trades can name the company. This episode traces the wire from the Square D breaker in a suburban basement all the way up to medium-voltage switchgear, Modicon PLCs, and the automatic transfer switches that keep data centers alive. Along the way: how a 19th-century French steel and armaments maker became an electrification giant, and why embedded infrastructure is so brutally hard to displace once it's in the ground…