This is the first of three feature articles Ars is publishing to explore the financial, technical, and competitive dimensions ...

Artificial intelligence is colliding with the hard limits of Earth’s power grids and cooling systems, and the next frontier its backers are eyeing is orbit. The pitch is simple: put data centers in ...

And then there’s all the space radiation. But wait. It’s not as crazy as it sounds. For one, think of the environmental ...

As artificial intelligence devours ever more electricity and water, some of the world’s biggest tech players are floating a radical fix: lifting parts of the cloud into orbit. The idea is simple to ...

Data centers are emerging as a new environmental flashpoint for the tech industry. Public concern is growing over their hunger for power and thirst for water. What’s the tech industry’s reaction to ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

The merger of xAI and SpaceX, the efforts by some startups, and research by Google have raised the question of when there will be data centers in space. The big advantage of space is the plentiful ...

Google recently unveiled Project Suncatcher, a research “moonshot” aiming to build a data center in space. The tech giant plans to use a constellation of solar-powered satellites which would run on ...