Few things are more alluded to in the field of science and technology in today’s news and cultural programs in Chile than Astronomy and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Interestingly, we rarely hear of how both disciplines have symbiotically empowered each other, pushing the edges of the computational paradigm at breakneck speed. The cutting edge in data storage and computing power is updated with each new super telescope to be inaugurated.

Downloading or pre-processing a modest set of astronomical data on a conventional laptop can take hours and even days, an alternative is imperative with the EELT and LSST just around the corner, promising hundreds or perhaps thousands of Terabytes of data per week. Furthermore, the computing power required for an expedited investigation is vastly greater than what can be expected with a personal computer. The management of these huge databases is today the work of Data Centers around the world, giving way to the birth of “Astro-informatics”, at the national level, the first center dedicated to this is ChiVO (Chilean Virtual Observatory).