Tech in 10 | 9 November 2026 — NASA’s Moon Push, Anthropic’s Power Bet & More

NASA turns its long-term Moon plans into contracts, transport missions and a dated nuclear-powered rover. Anthropic reportedly makes a US$3.4 billion bet on gas generation for AI data centres, while physicists use electrical noise to reveal new evidence about high-temperature superconductors.

In this episode:

• NASA’s US$10 billion CLPS 2 framework, the PROMISE lunar rover and new cislunar transport projects
• Why electricity and grid delays are becoming strategic constraints for artificial intelligence infrastructure
• What electron pairing in a cuprate pseudogap could mean for future superconducting materials

Sources

• NASA — NASA Awards Moon Base Transportation, Technology, Science Projects
• Reuters — Anthropic secures $3.4 billion generator deal for AI data centers, FT reports
• Bloomberg — Anthropic Buys Power for AI Data Centers in $3.4B Deal, FT Says
• Science — Direct evidence of electron pairing in the pseudogap
• Ars Technica — Physicists listened to electrical noise to crack a superconductor mystery