The name Athena was picked through a contest among NASA’s supercomputing workforce. Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom and ...

Surging demand for energy to power artificial intelligence (AI) data centers is reaching new heights as companies are pursuing plans to station data centers in space. Billionaire entrepreneurs Elon ...

Tech firms are floating the idea of building data centers in space and tapping into the sun's energy to meet out-of-this-world power demands in a fierce artificial intelligence race.

Prime Data Center in Vernon, Calif. on Dec. 25, 2025. Prime Data Center in Vernon, Calif. on Dec. 25, 2025.Los Angeles Times—Getty Images Editor at Large Data centers are hot. Literally. In the U.S., ...

As the AI surge progresses, the most significant hurdle is unlikely to be the availability of chips or components. Instead, it will be electricity, cooling, and physical space. On our planet, data ...