A comet gets destroyed by the sun, data centers endanger the Potomac River, and more science news
The Artemis II astronauts are settling back into life on Earth, but we’re not quite tired yet of…
Online response to the attack on Sam Altman’s house shows a generational divide
For years, the resistance to artificial intelligence looked manageable. There were academics writing open letters, Hollywood writers striking…
Microsoft and NVIDIA Are Using AI to Fast-Track Nuclear Power Development
Tech giants Microsoft and NVIDIA are collaborating on an artificial intelligence project designed to accelerate the development of…
Starcloud reaches $1.1 billion valuation as AI space race heats up
By Akash Sriram March 30 (Reuters) – Orbital compute infrastructure startup Starcloud has raised $170 million at a…
Big tech was embracing clean energy and turning a corner on climate change. Then AI data centers arrived
Six years ago, Google was confident that by 2030 it would power all operations with electricity generated from…
Can Carbon Credits Clean Up Big Tech’s AI-Fueled Emissions Surge?
As multiple large-scale data centres are developed around the globe, Big Tech is investing heavily in a range…
K2 to launch its first high-powered satellite for space compute
An ambitious satellite builder will launch one of the highest-powered spacecraft ever built in the weeks ahead to…
Iranian attacks on Amazon data centers in UAE, Bahrain signal a new kind of war
The tech industry often talks about “the cloud” as though it were something abstract and untouchable. But the…
Hyperscalers are coming to an orbit near you. Power will decide the winners.
Amid the explosive growth surrounding telecommunications megaconstellations, orbital data centers and next-generation payloads, the space ecosystem is entering…
Meta and AMD Partner for Longterm AI Infrastructure Agreement
Today, we’re announcing a multi-year agreement with AMD to power our AI infrastructure with up to 6GW of…
Orbital AI data centers could work, but they might ruin Earth in the process
At the start of the month, Elon Musk announced that two of his companies — SpaceX and xAI …
SpaceX Alumni Raise $50 Million for Data Center Optical Tech
Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Mesh Optical Technologies, a startup working on hardware used to move data at high speeds…