supercluster

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Recent Examples of supercluster The project timeline The supercomputer’s construction was kicked off after xAI acquired a 1M sq ft warehouse in Memphis, along with adjacent land, forming the physical footprint for the next phase of the supercluster. Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Jan. 2026 The deals provide power to the PJM grid that supports Meta's operations, including the Prometheus supercluster. Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 14 Jan. 2026 The companies aim to power Meta's Prometheus supercluster computing system. Jim Cramer, CNBC, 9 Jan. 2026 Presidents are routinely briefed on major economic data reports the night before they … Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, announced deals Friday with three nuclear energy companies to help power its AI infrastructure, including the tech giant’s forthcoming Prometheus supercluster. Julia Shapero, The Hill, 9 Jan. 2026 In the early 2010s, Courtois was part of the team that discovered and described the Laniakea supercluster of galaxies to which our Milky Way belongs. Caroline Carlson, Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025 Meta's first supercluster, called Prometheus, is slated to go live in 2026. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for supercluster
Noun
  • The team spotted the distant quasar, an actively feeding supermassive black hole, using observations from the Subaru Telescope.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Imagine a distant light source, like a quasar, that sends light traveling for billions of light-years.
    Paul Sutter, Space.com, 20 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • What is astronomically lost in the supernova of when fame and art collide?
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Called tidal disruption events, these also erupt with energies around that of a supernova.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 22 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • In 1992 that changed, when astronomers spotted two planets orbiting a pulsar 2,300 light years from Earth.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Gravitational forces from the much heavier pulsar are pulling the Jupiter-mass world into a bizarre lemon shape.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • With it, Venezuela’s transformation to a petroleum supergiant had begun — for better or worse.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 5 Jan. 2026
  • All three of its contingent stars are huge, hot, blue supergiant stars at vastly different distances from the solar system: Alnitak: 1,260 light-years.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 1 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Even though novas are exceptionally bright, supernovas are brighter—reaching billions of times brighter than the sun at their peak.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2025
  • Recorded live at the Lincoln Center, the band plays a bossa-nova take on the song while Gaga sings solo, wearing one of Cher’s own wigs.
    Kristen S. Hé, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Setting a financial agenda early isn’t about controlling every variable.
    Jennifer Jay Palumbo, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • This suggests the presence of an internal, self-evolving latent variable—independent of external stimuli—that shapes the timing structure of motivation and decision-making.
    Matt Emma, USA Today, 24 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • These transients have brightnesses in between that of classical novas, triggered when a white dwarf hoards material from a companion star thus sparking a runaway nuclear explosion, and supernovas that mark the death of a massive star and the birth of a black hole or a neutron star.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The culprit was a magnetar, a super-magnetized neutron star located about 50,000 light-years away.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 22 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Procyon's white dwarf companion was not found until 1896 at the Lick Observatory in California.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • To understand a nova, first understand a white dwarf.
    Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 11 Dec. 2025

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“Supercluster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supercluster. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.

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