Isidore - developing AI to understand our solar system

As we move into the next quarter of this century, the challenges facing our planet - from climate volatility to solar storms - have grown in both frequency and complexity. We have reached a pivotal moment where the bottleneck for scientific breakthroughs is no longer just human ingenuity. It is the sheer scale of computation and data orchestration required to process the numerous sources and scope of the information available to us.

The FDL Europe (2018 - 2023) and Earth Systems Lab (2024 - 2025) research initiatives have served as a primary engine for tackling problems on the frontier of space, our planet and AI. Since 2020, the partnership between Scan, the Frontier Development Lab (FDL) and the European Space Agency (ESA) has proven that when you remove the constraints of compute and storage, you remove the constraints on discovery. By providing cloud-based high-performance compute infrastructure capable of training massive AI models, Scan has enabled scientists to move beyond theoretical research into the realm of actionable, real-time planetary defence and Earth systems management.