Enter the “Hive.” Just outside of Denver, a small team of people oversees Liberty Energy’s entire fleet of fracking operations nationwide, largely to supervise the AI-automated work with human eyes.
Instead of golden honey, the Hive facilitates the churning out of millions of barrels of black gold—the crude oil produced from Liberty’s increasingly AI-dominated hydraulic fracturing, called fracking, that now requires fewer crews and people. Amid lower oil prices and activity levels, those savings are key.
