Why this cold storage warehouse operator warmed up to artificial intelligence

This article is adapted from GreenBiz's newsletter, VERGE Weekly, running Wednesdays. If you think your organization has a challenging energy consumption profile, try running a network of cold storage facilities -- with most sites in not-so-cold locations, such as California and Georgia. One of the more intriguing examples of smart power management I've come across in recent months is an initiative under way at Lineage Logistics, which runs more than 200 warehouses across North America, Europe and Asia. It handles food for more than 2,500 customers, which are all businesses themselves, such as grocery stories and food services organizations. Each of the Lineage buildings -- an average of 1 million square feet in size -- basically stores about the same amount of food that you'd find in 770,000 home freezers.