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The fridge-size satellite with AI chips on board is part of Project Suncatcher, the company's moonshot effort to put AI data centers in space and harness solar energy.
Google just sent its AI chips into orbit. The test could help answer a futuristic question with big implications on Earth: Could the data centers powering AI one day run in space?
Google has launched the first prototype satellite for Project Suncatcher, a long-term research initiative exploring whether space could eventually support scalable machine learning infrastructure.