"Google CEO Sundar Pichai told Shannon Bream on Fox News Sunday thatGoogle's goal is to start putting data centers in space, powered by the sun, as soon as 2027. "We are taking our first step in '27," he said. "We'll send tiny, tiny racks of machines, and have them in satellites, test them out, and then start scaling from there." In a decade, Pichai said that it'll be normal to build extraterrestrial data centers."
""At Google, we're always proud of taking moonshots," he said. "One of our moonshots is: How do we one day have data centers in space so that we can better harness the energy from the sun, which is one hundred trillion times more energy than we produce in all of Earth today." Google's cosmic pivot comes amid growing global scrutiny over the power demands of data centers."
Google initiated Project Suncatcher to scale machine learning operations in space and reduce terrestrial environmental impacts. The company plans to launch tiny racks of machines into satellites beginning in 2027 for testing and scaling. The long-term aim is to build extraterrestrial data centers powered by abundant solar energy to harness far more energy than Earth produces. The effort responds to concerns about AI's environmental toll from rare material extraction, electronic waste, water usage for cooling, and greenhouse gas emissions. The United Nations Environment Program emphasizes the need to ensure a net positive environmental effect before deploying AI at scale.
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