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

The next big technology step is to put data centers in place. Can it work?

This collage shows photos of Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship in flight, a data center in California and the International Space Station above Earth. Many photographs are shaped like parallelograms or trapezoids.

AFP via Getty Images and NASA/Collage by Emily Bogle/NPR Standing in front of a friendly crowd in March, Elon Musk laid out his plan for the future of his companies, and it was really out of this world. Musk announced that his space development company, SpaceX, which had recently merged with his artificial intelligence company, … Read more

Seven missions have been launched to test improved data transmission from space

View from orbit as satellites are deployed during the Transporter‑16 rideshare mission.

Tools 31/03/2026 605 feelings 24 love Eight CubeSats and one payload supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) have arrived in orbit, where they will demonstrate various applications aimed at improving the way data is sent and processed. Thanks to these indications, the practical and – in some cases – even the life-saving information facilitated … Read more

For almost 30 years, we were told that the universe would expand forever, but now new data from 2025 and 2026 are bringing the Big Crunch theory back to the table, predicting that everything in existence could eventually be crushed by the big vision of the universe.

A large telescope inside the observatory as scientists study dark energy and the future expansion of the universe.

For more than two decades, textbooks and science fairs have been telling the same story that the universe is not only expanding, but accelerating. Now a new wave of data is quietly shaking up that picture and giving new life to a mysterious ending called the Big Crunch, where everything in the universe finally collapses … Read more