SMRTR AINov 5, 2025Ars Technica

If you want to satiate AI’s hunger for power, Google suggests going to space

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Google announced Project Suncatcher, a plan to deploy swarms of AI-powered satellites in orbit equipped with its Tensor Processing Units to handle growing artificial intelligence computing demands. The space-based data centers would use unlimited solar power and radiate heat into space, potentially creating terawatt-class orbital computing capabilities by 2027.

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