Google says AI will help run datacenters in the near future - TechRepublic

The engineer in charge of keeping Google available 24/7 says the enormous datacenters that underpin online services worldwide will soon be run with the help of AI. Ben Treynor Sloss, Google's VP of engineering, is basing this prediction on the profound savings identified by a machine-learning system charged with helping run a Google datacenter in 2016. The Google DeepMind system significantly improved the power efficiency of the Google datacenter, via tweaks to how servers were run and the operation of power and cooling equipment. Following the system's advice allowed Google to reduce the energy needed to cool servers by about 40 percent. If that reduction were replicated across Google's datacenters worldwide, it could add up to a saving of tens of millions of dollars each year.