How AI can create self-driving data centers

Most of the buzz around artificial intelligence (AI) centers on autonomous vehicles, chatbots, digital-twin technology, robotics, and the use of AI-based'smart' systems to extract business insight out of large data sets. But AI and machine learning (ML) will one day play an important role down among the server racks in the guts of the enterprise data center. AI's potential to boost data-center efficiency – and by extension improve the business – falls into four main categories: Put it all together and the vision is that AI can help enterprises create highly automated, secure, self-healing data centers that require little human intervention and run at high levels of efficiency and resiliency. "AI automation can scale to interpret data at levels beyond human capacity, gleaning imperative insights needed for optimizing energy use, distributing workloads and maximizing efficiency to achieve higher data-center asset utilization," explains Said Tabet, distinguished engineer in the global CTO office at Dell Technologies. Of course, much like the promise of self-driving cars, the self-driving data center isn't here yet.