Digital twin wind farms: Siemens and NVIDIA modeling turbines in AI

<p>When you plunk a $100 million wind farm down on 98,000 acres of varying terrain, you want to know a few things. You want to know that you’re optimizing the location of your multi-million-dollar turbines. You want to know that the turbines you source can handle the gustiest gust of wind they will ever encounter without shattering dramatically in a viral video. And you want to test potential uses cases and changes in software, which is cheap and changeable, rather than in hardware, which is expensive and hard to edit.</p> <p>Which is why Siemens Gamesa, the global renewable energy company, is working with NVIDIA to generate AI-powered digital twins of its turbines.</p> <p>In this TechFirst, I chat with Dion Harris, Lead Product Manager of Accelerated Computing at NVIDIA and Greg Oxley, Siemens Gamesa.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Links:</p> <p>Support TechFirst with $SMRT coins: https://rally.io/creator/SMRT/</p> <p>Buy $SMRT to join a community focused on tech for good: the emerging world of smart matter. Access my private Slack, get your name in my book, suggest speakers for TechFirst ... and support my work.</p> <p><br></p> <p>TechFirst transcripts: https://johnkoetsier.com/category/tech-first/</p> <p>Forbes columns: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/&nbsp;</p> <p>Full videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/johnkoetsier?sub_confirmation=1&nbsp;</p> <p>Keep in touch: https://twitter.com/johnkoetsier&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p>