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Re:Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2016 Re... by tma-1 on Thursday January 26, 2017 @05:42PM (#13496019)
On electricity to train all those deep neural networks.
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Re:Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2016 Re... by bitmapbrother on Thursday January 26, 2017 @07:02PM (#13496601)
Their DeepMind AI has actually decreased their energy consumption at their data centers.

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/google-uses-deepmind-ai-...

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Re:Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2016 Re... by ec109685 on Friday January 27, 2017 @02:04AM (#13498247)
But they could still be spending more aggregate money on hardware for their deep learning hardware than previously.
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