Space data centers: SpaceX and Blue Origin race to orbit as scientists question physics

Space data centers: SpaceX and Blue Origin race to orbit as scientists question physics

The scale is attractive in its simplicity: AI needs more power than the world’s internet can provide, so it moves data centers into orbit, where the sun never sets and electricity is free. SpaceX, Blue Origin, and a growing constellation of startups are now racing to make that vision a reality. The problem, according to … Read more

Seeing Blue During Schirmacher’s Summer Melt Season – NASA Science

A network of cerulean meltwater channels flowing over the blue-white ice. An "oasis" of the land appears as a brown area of ​​rocks in the lower part of the image.

Summer is a busy season at Schirmacher Oasis, an ice-free rocky outcrop on Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica. It is near the base of the Nivlisen Ice Shelf and about 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the open waters of the Lazarev Sea, the country’s “oasis” in the middle of a continuous glacier is home to … Read more