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Google uses supercomputing to reduce data center energy usage
Topic Started: Jul 20 2016, 12:28 PM (152 Views)
Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
Google Just Figured Out A Futuristic Way To Slash Its Energy Bill
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/google-deepmind-energy_us_578f9137e4b0f180da63cc6b
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Klaus
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HOLY CARP!!!
I hate articles like that. Just buzzwords, but nothing about how it works. Do they think that people will be fascinated just because they use meaningless words like "AI" or "deep learning"?

The Google blog post itself is a bit better. I think they simple try to identify patterns to predict how much they need to cool at what time. They could use a billion different technologies to do that. I see no reason why "deep learning" neural networks should be particularly good at that, except that dropping those words seem to guarantee some publicity.
I'm pretty sure that whatever algorithm they used to fiddle with the cooling has nothing whatsoever to do with their Go game engine.

I mean, they could have just said "we managed to reduce our energy consumption by identifying cooling patterns", just as everybody else would have said, but when Google does this then they need to pretend that it has something to do with a fashionable cool-sounding technology. Pathetic.
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Copper
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Pathetic
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Steve Miller
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All valid complaints until it gets to the poor schmuck who has to make it work.
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