Google’s artificial intelligence can actually help the environment

With the push of a button this spring — Google was instantly using 40% less energy to cool a handful of its data centers.

The achievement, which Google hails as a major breakthrough, points to how artificial intelligence can be used to make data centers, power plants, energy grids and manufacturing plants more efficient. As these huge, energy-intensive operations use power more efficiently, fewer greenhouse gases are emitted.

By Matt McFarland – CNNMoney

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