 | Dr Stu Redshaw, Chief Technology Officer at EkkoSense, explains how AI-enabled thermal optimisation is changing the data centre landscape. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a key theme for many data centre industry events this year – and many speakers particularly have referred to how Google has been applying AI thinking from its acquisition of Deepmind to help cut total energy usage across its data centre estate by some 15%. That’s clearly a significant saving – and one that’s sounding increasingly attractive to data centre operators, especially as data centre traffic on a global scale is projected to grow at a 27% CAGR from now through 2020. |
