Google Has Found a Way to Use A.I. to Boost Usefulness of Wind Energy Digital Trends

Google may have dropped the motto "don't be evil" from its corporate code of conduct, but it seems that the search giant still wants to use its superpowers for good. With that mission in mind, Google and its A.I. subsidiary DeepMind have been working on a way to increase the usefulness of green energy produced by wind farms. The problem the company has been trying to solve is that, while wind energy represents an important source of carbon-free electricity, it is fundamentally unpredictable. As a result, despite its positive points, wind power is less useful to the power grid than power sources that can reliably deliver it at set times. By using machine learning artificial intelligence to predict wind output, Google and DeepMind have trained a neural network to accurately predict wind power output 36 hours ahead of the power being generated.