Microsoft's "Planetary Computer

Google & Microsoft’s ambitious plans to map nature

Microsoft Announcement:

“We’re building a Planetary Computer”

What exactly is a planetary computer? Microsoft’s explanation of a planetary computer.

Microsoft and Google are in a race to digitize and map earth’s features. The companies figured out that if they can map streets and houses, they can map frogs and molecules. It’s just scaling.

The companies are giving away monstrous sets of environmental data and computer code in this race.

“It’s great. These billion dollar companies with oodles of resources are putting this monstrously powerful environmental computer code and data sets out there for free—and telling us to use it. We’re like kids being offered free ice cream.”

—Jed Anderson, Creator, Ceres AI

Environmental intelligence. Data. Power. Speed.

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  author = {Jed Anderson},
  title  = {Microsoft's "Planetary Computer},
  year   = {2020},
  url    = {https://jedanderson.org/posts/microsofts-planetary-computer},
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Anderson, J. (2020). Microsoft's "Planetary Computer. Retrieved from https://jedanderson.org/posts/microsofts-planetary-computer

Anderson, Jed. "Microsoft's "Planetary Computer." Jed Anderson, May 19, 2020, https://jedanderson.org/posts/microsofts-planetary-computer.