Google Testing AI System To Cool Data Center Energy Bills

An anonymous reader writes: Google is looking at artificial intelligence technology to help it identify opportunities for data center energy savings. The company is approaching the end of an initial 2-year trial of the machine learning tool, and hopes to see it applied across the entire data center portfolio by the end of 2016. The new AI software, which is being developed at Google's DeepMind, has already helped to cut energy use for cooling by 40%, and to improve overall data center efficiency by 15%. DeepMind said that the program has been an enormous help in analyzing data center efficiency, from looking at energy used for cooling and air temperature to pressure and humidity. The team now hopes to expand the system to understand other infrastructure challenges, in the data center and beyond, including improving power plant conversion, reducing semiconductor manufacturing energy, water usage, and helping manufacturers increase throughput.

Comments

God damnit

[geek]

"Google is looking at artificial intelligence technology"

No they are not. AI doesn't exist yet. I'm so sick of tech companies tossing this fucking AI buzzword shit around.

Re:God damnit

[geek]

That funny because I am so sick of people complaining of the allegedly incorrect use of the word Artificial Intelligence.

It is the correct academic term for the computing field that include data mining, machine learning, operation research, and statistics. Now, maybe Artificial Intelligence does not mean what you wish it meant. But academics are fairly clear on what it means...

Machine learning != Artificial Intelligence

No matter how hard you try to rationalize that bullshit it doesn't make it true. It's just a bunch of jackass business people trying to sound like their company is ahead of the game with AI when the reality is that it doesnt fucking exist yet.