Artificial Intelligence for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy – 6 Current Applications Emerj

Founded in London in 2010 and acquired by Google in 2014, AI company DeepMind Technologies Ltd. reportedly reduced the amount of energy required to cool Google's data centers by 40 percent. DeepMind reported these results in July 2016, however, the company claims that it first began applying machine learning two years prior to improve energy usage. Specifically, a set of data center operating scenarios and parameters were used to train a system of neural networks. The neural network "learned" how the data center functioned and began identifying opportunities for optimization. Google claims that data was pulled from thousands of sensors located in the data centers.