"Pichai was referring to Project Suncatcher, a new long-term research bet that Google announced in November. The goal of Project Suncatcher is to "one day scale machine learning in space," according to a company blog post. The Google CEO didn't offer much in the way of details, except that "in 2027, hopefully we'll have a TPU somewhere in space," he said, referring to the company's custom AI chip."
"That Roadster stunt doesn't begin to compare with the outer space ambitions of Musk and other tech titans in the age of AI. "Starship should be able to deliver around 300 GW per year of solar-powered AI satellites to orbit, maybe 500 GW. The 'per year' part is what makes this such a big deal," Musk wrote in an X post earlier this month."
Project Suncatcher is a long-term research effort to scale machine learning in space. Google aims to place a custom TPU in orbit by 2027 as an early demonstration. CEO Sundar Pichai described the idea as a moonshot and said growing compute needs make space-based data centers sensible over time. Elon Musk projected Starship could deliver roughly 300–500 GW per year of solar-powered AI satellites to orbit, a scale vastly larger than current global data center capacity. Global data center electrical capacity is about 59 gigawatts, underscoring the potential gap between future AI compute demand and existing terrestrial infrastructure.
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