As many of you would know, data Centres are the physical homes to servers used for web hosting (and the digital homes to your websites). Data centres also require more than an insane buttload of Energy; in fact, they’re notorious for their energy consumption. In 2013, Google had around 13 data centres globally and they used 260 million watts of power, which accounts to 0.01% of global energy (according to Storage Servers). However, Google is, as of recently, one step closer to fixing the problem. By applying machine learning to Google data centres, they saw a huge 40% cut in energy usage. The AI (Artificial Intelligence) system was built by British AI company, DeepMind, to control certain parts of its data centres to make its vast server farms more environmentally friendly. It was bought by Google for more than US$600..

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