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DeepMind reduced Google data center cooling bill by 40% in an experiment. If this effect is real, it probably more than justified the $500m tag Google paid to a
by davidcgl 10y ago
DeepMind reduced Google data center cooling bill by 40% in an experiment. If this effect is real, it probably more than justified the $500m tag Google paid to acquire DeepMind. Google might not have come up with a killer app, but perhaps the real killer app is not in the consumer space.
https://deepmind.com/blog https://deepmind.com/blog
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12126298 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12126298
- c0g 10y agoTaking that at face value that's amazing.
- aljones 10y agoup to 40%
- j1vms 10y agoTo be fair, the HN discussion was mostly focused on the lack of substantial details or an actual research paper to back up that claim. Google would probably need to show that only DeepMind, or an equivalent device, would have been presently likely to find the energy savings that it ended up finding.
- ucaetano 10y agoNow extrapolate that to all datacenters in the industry. To all factories, power plants, homes, etc. Imagine you can cut the cooling/heating bill of 1/2 the industrial world by 40%.