By Francois Giudice, Bureau Chief, France
On the occasion of VivaTech’s 10th anniversary, TotalEnergies is showcasing MethaneLive to illustrate how TotalEnergies leverages data to integrate artificial intelligence into its operations, making them more efficient, safer, and more sustainable. This approach is part of a broader initiative to scale up the use of data and AI across the Company, Cyber Era NG learns.
Data: A Key Enabler for Scaling AI
Today, nearly 3,000 pieces of equipment are monitored across the Company’s assets. By analyzing data collected from this equipment, AI systems detect early warning signs of potential failures, enabling teams to proactively plan maintenance operations on industrial facilities. This approach improves asset availability, reduces unplanned shutdowns and associated costs, and enhances safety. The objective is to rapidly extend this system to tens of thousands of additional pieces of equipment monitored by AI models.
To fully leverage data and deploy AI at scale, TotalEnergies is investing in collecting real-time information from all its sites, then making it more reliable, better structured, and easily accessible to teams through dedicated platforms. Since VivaTech 2025, TotalEnergies has signed two data partnerships with Emerson and Cognite.
AI to unlock the full value of subsurface data
TotalEnergies’ ambition in artificial intelligence applied to the subsurface is to leverage advanced AI models combined with high-performance computing to fully harness its data and knowledge base, from exploration through to production across its assets.
In geosciences, AI helps streamline basin and field synthesis, improve the interpretation of seismic data, and optimize reservoir development and production, while automating processes and enabling the evaluation of a wide range of scenarios. It thus strengthens teams’ analytical and interpretation capabilities, helping identify new resource opportunities and optimize their development in a more efficient and sustainable way.
A new supercomputer to support AI applications
To support these data investments, TotalEnergies is also strengthening its computing capabilities. Pangea 5, a new-generation supercomputer, will increase the Company’s computing power sixfold and support the development of AI applications. From 2027, it will help meet growing digital needs, optimize computing times, and deepen the understanding of complex phenomena, particularly in subsurface, electricity, and renewable energy applications.
AI to enhance safety and boost industrial performance
TotalEnergies is also building on the collaboration announced with Mistral AI at VivaTech 2025, centered around a joint innovation lab. The first use cases notably focus on refinery performance analysis, as well as on leveraging large volumes of technical documents and data for Exploration & Production activities.
Renewables Powering AI
AI is also driving a sharp increase in electricity demand linked to the growth of data centers, which currently account for around 3 per cent of global electricity consumption. In this context, TotalEnergies is meeting the growing energy needs of AI-driven applications by providing tailored solutions to technology companies, particularly data centers. The Company has already signed more than 4 GW of renewable power supply agreements with Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Orange, and Data4, illustrating its ability to support its tech customers in their decarbonization efforts.
