will launching them into space help?

Companies have proposed launching fleets of satellites into orbit that would act similar to data centres on Earth.Credit: NicoElNino/Alamy As the huge data centres powering the artificial-intelligence boom grow ever more unpopular on Earth, companies are planning to launch them into space. Data centres will use twice as much energy by 2030 — driven by…

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Author Correction: Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold

Google Research, Mountain View, CA, USA Rajeev Acharya, Dmitry A. Abanin, Laleh Aghababaie-Beni, Igor Aleiner, Trond I. Andersen, Markus Ansmann, Frank Arute, Kunal Arya, Abraham Asfaw, Nikita Astrakhantsev, Juan Atalaya, Ryan Babbush, Dave Bacon, Brian Ballard, Joseph C. Bardin, Andreas Bengtsson, Alexander Bilmes, Sergio Boixo, Gina Bortoli, Alexandre Bourassa, Jenna Bovaird, Leon Brill, Michael Broughton, David A. Browne, Brett Buchea, Bob B. Buckley, David A. Buell, Tim Burger, Brian Burkett, Nicholas Bushnell, Anthony Cabrera, Juan Campero, Hung-Shen Chang, Yu Chen, Zijun Chen, Ben Chiaro, Desmond Chik, Charina Chou, Jahan Claes, Agnetta Y. Cleland, Josh Cogan, Roberto…

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Trump fires entire NSF advisory board

You have full access to this article via your institution. Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Researchers serving on the National Science Board, which advises the US National Science Foundation, received a brief e-mail on Friday telling them that they had been…

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Why both trees and technology are important in the race to mitigate carbon emissions

This year, two standards will be released to help govern corporate climate action. Both must address an issue that has become more divisive than the science warrants: what kinds of carbon removal should count towards corporations offsetting their carbon emissions. The first is the International Organization for Standardization’s first net-zero standard (ISO 14060), and the…

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