The tech industry is on a tear, building data centers for AI as quickly as they can buy up the land. The sky-high energy costs and logistical headaches of managing all those data centers have prompted ...

When Google calls something a “moonshot,” it’s rarely just a metaphor. Its latest experiment – Project Suncatcher – quite literally looks beyond Earth. Google has outlined an idea that sounds like ...

This would involve Google Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) AI chips being placed onboard an interconnected network of satellites to “harness the full power of the Sun.” Specifically, a “solar panel can be ...

Google AI data centres in space: Google is exploring a bold new frontier for artificial intelligence, planning to send AI data centres into space, with its first trial satellites expected to launch in ...

IN SPACE - AUGUST 11: In this handout photo provided by NASA, the Canadarm2 (center) and solar array panel wings on the International Space Station are extended during the mission's first planned ...

In a recent Fox Business interview, Pichai detailed the company’s vision to mitigate the massive energy consumption required by artificial intelligence (AI). Describing the initiative as a “moonshot” ...

Google announced Project Suncatcher, a “moonshot” plan to launch AI data centers into space on solar-powered satellites. This aims to harness unlimited clean energy for its TPUs. Despite communication ...

Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti receives funding from NASA and Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). He teaches space systems engineering and mission design and management at the University ...