Google is testing a new project that could harness the sun to power data centers in space. Google's own research shows that space-based data centers could avoid draining resources on Earth. SpaceX and ...

Google’s ambitious Project Suncatcher proposes launching a constellation of 81 satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO) to create solar-powered AI data centers in space. While the idea promises to ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the AI surge progresses, the most significant hurdle is unlikely to be the availability of chips or components. Instead, it will be electricity, cooling, and physical space. On our planet, data ...

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 ...

It was probably always when, not if, Google would add its name to the list of companies intrigued by the potential of orbiting data centers. Google announced Tuesday a new initiative, named Project ...

Google's parent company Alphabet has already put the robots on your streets with Waymo, but that clearly wasn't ambitious enough. Google has now announced Project Suncatcher, a self-described ...

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 ...