Google Trusts DeepMind AI To Manage Data Centre Cooling

This picture show the facilities of the Google data center in Changhua, central Taiwan, on December 11, 2013. US search engine giant Google announced that it has decided to double its investment in Taiwan to $600 million while opening its first data centre in Asia cashing in on the robust demands. Google is trusting an artificial intelligence (AI) system developed by DeepMind to stop its data centres around the world from overheating. The AI system -- able to reduce the amount of energy Google used to cool its data centres by 40% -- has been giving cooling recommendations to Google's data centre operators since 2016. But now Google is allowing the data centre operators to take a back seat, giving the AI an unprecedented level of autonomy in the process.