Risky move: Vestas will open data gold mine to conquer new source of income

Insight: Vestas is preparing to share data with its customers so they can get unique insight into their wind turbines. But the move could be detrimental to Vestas' own business.
Photo: /ritzau/Carsten Ingemann
Photo: /ritzau/Carsten Ingemann
BY KASPER BRØNDGAARD ANDERSEN, FINANS

With 500 sensors in a new Vestas turbine, the Danish turbine manufacturer's data on how wind turbines operate is growing by more than 800 million data points every day.

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