AI galaxy hunters are adding to the global GPU crunch

NASA has moved the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launch up to September 2026, adding to a flood of data from Roman, Webb, and Rubin.

Astronomers are increasingly turning to GPUs and AI models like Morpheus to detect galaxies, improve observations, and analyze datasets too large for manual work.

But aging university clusters and tighter NSF funding are straining research compute, turning astronomical data growth into a broader high-performance computing squeeze.