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Google launches AI hype to the moon with Project Suncatcher

Google on Tuesday announced a new moonshot - launching constellations of solar-powered satellites packed to the gills with its home-grown tensor processing units (TPUs) to form orbital AI datacenters. "In the future, space may be the best place to scale AI compute," Google executives wrote in a blog post, in which they explain that solar panels can be eight times more efficient in space than on Earth, and can produce power continuously.

Artificial intelligence

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fromArs Technica

1 week ago

Meet Project Suncatcher, Google's plan to put AI data centers in space

Free-fall linked-satellite data centers require kilometer-scale station keeping, radiation-tolerant consumer TPUs for multi-year operation, prototype launches, and much cheaper launch costs.

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fromArs Technica

6 months ago

Reusable rockets are here, so why is NASA paying more to launch stuff to space?

NASA's mission launch costs have risen dramatically since the late 2000s due to reduced competition.

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Google launches AI hype to the moon with Project Suncatcher

Meet Project Suncatcher, Google's plan to put AI data centers in space

Reusable rockets are here, so why is NASA paying more to launch stuff to space?

#launch-costs
#launch-costs