The American company Amazon.com is one of the biggest businesses in the United States and around the world. Now, the company is said to be negotiating with the government in Chile on a plan to reach for the stars. The Reuters news agency reports that Amazon hopes to store and use information collected by huge space telescopes in the South American nation. Amazon is in talks with Chilean officials to store and mine what is called astrodata: information gathered by the telescopes. If an agreement is reached, the company may be able to use the information to develop artificial intelligence tools. Chile’s government recently announced plans to combine data from all its telescopes and store it in a “cloud” computing system. This means the information would be stored over the internet instead of a computer hard drive. The government has yet to provide details of the astrodata possibilities. It did not say which companies might operate the computing cloud.
Title: Amazon Reaches for the Stars
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data-end-time='33938'>The Reuters news agency reports that Amazon hopes to store and use information collected by huge space telescopes in the South American nation.</span> <span data-start-time='33938' data-end-time='45833'>Amazon is in talks with Chilean officials to store and mine what is called astrodata: information gathered by the telescopes.</span> <span data-start-time='45833' data-end-time='56854'>If an agreement is reached, the company may be able to use the information to develop artificial intelligence tools.</span> <span data-start-time='56854' data-end-time='68417'>Chile’s government recently announced plans to combine data from all its telescopes and store it in a “cloud” computing system.</span> <span data-start-time='68417' data-end-time='76896'>This means the information would be stored over the internet instead of a computer hard drive.</span> <span data-start-time='76896' data-end-time='84083'>The government has yet to provide details of the astrodata possibilities.</span> <span data-start-time='84083' data-end-time='90167'>It did not say which companies might operate the computing cloud.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2811/E325CFFB-1F46-4442-AEC3-E32BAD4027D2_w1023_r1_s.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=11533 data-hint-location='33938' style='display:none;'><div class='question' 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