Amazon Eyes Chilean Skies as It Seeks to Datamine the Stars

Amazon Eyes Chilean Skies as It Seeks to Datamine the Stars
A view of the Milky Way from an area of Puyehue National Park near Osorno City, Chile, May 8, 2008. (Reuters/Ivan Alvarado).
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Amazon.com is in talks with Chile to house and mine massive amounts of data generated by the country’s giant telescopes, which could prove fertile ground for the company to develop new artificial intelligence tools.

The talks, which have been little reported on so far and which were described to Reuters by Chilean officials and an astronomer, are aimed at fuelling growth in Amazon.com Inc’s cloud computing business in Latin America and boosting its data processing capabilities.