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Google's Data Centre literally generates heat. So anything we can do in this direction, is helpful. https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-ai-reduces-google-data-

• selimthegrim 8y ago
  I’m not sure this is what the authors meant by their title.
  • mrcactu5 8y ago
    One of the authors is at Google, so it wouldn't surprise me. Thermodynamics is clearly a metaphor, but information entropy they are studying be bounded by the literal heat generated by their computations.
    • selimthegrim 8y ago
      That author was my classmate in undergrad, I used to run into him in the computer lab. The point I was making was that I think he was interested more in the physics parallels than any practical effects.