{"id":28146,"date":"2016-07-21T06:48:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T13:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/google-is-using-deepminds-ai-to-slash-its-enormous-electricity-bill"},"modified":"2017-04-25T19:52:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T02:52:58","slug":"google-is-using-deepminds-ai-to-slash-its-enormous-electricity-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/google-is-using-deepminds-ai-to-slash-its-enormous-electricity-bill","title":{"rendered":"Google is using DeepMind\u2019s AI to slash its enormous electricity bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"http:\/\/static3.techinsider.io\/image\/5745c62cdd0895e70b8b45e2-1190-625\/google-is-using-deepminds-ai-to-slash-its-enormous-electricity-bill.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google announced on Wednesday that it has been using a DeepMind-built AI system to control certain parts of its power-hungry data centres over the last few months as it looks to make its vast server farms more environmentally friendly.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/legacy\/Global\/usa\/planet3\/PDFs\/2015ClickingClean.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a Greenpeace report<\/a> predicted that the electricity consumption of data centres is set to account for 12% of global electricity consumption by 2017 and companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple have some of the biggest data centres in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Google said it has been able to reduce the energy consumption of its data centre cooling units \u2014 used to stop Google\u2019s self-built servers from overheating \u2014 by as much as 40% with the help of a DeepMind AI system.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techinsider.io\/google-is-using-deepminds-ai-to-slash-its-enormous-electricity-bill-2016-7?utm_content=bufferf604a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer-ti\">http:\/\/www.techinsider.io\/google-is-using-deepminds-ai-to-sl...=buffer-ti<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google announced on Wednesday that it has been using a DeepMind-built AI system to control certain parts of its power-hungry data centres over the last few months as it looks to make its vast server farms more environmentally friendly. Last year, a Greenpeace report predicted that the electricity consumption of data centres is set to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40565,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28146\/revisions\/40565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}