Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed Project Suncatcher, a plan to build compact satellite data centers powered by direct solar energy. The company aims to deploy its TPUs into orbit by 2027, with Pichai ...

Google's latest moonshot research project wants to send data centers to space. CEO Sundar Pichai is the latest tech executive to bet on the idea during the AI race. Pichai said he hopes Google can ...

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Star Catcher Industries has set a new record for beaming power at a distance. Its Star Catcher Network technology beamed 1.1 kW of power at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida using off-the-shelf ...

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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 ...

Google Project Suncatcher is a new research moonshot to one day scale machine learning in space. Working backward from this potential future, they are exploring how an interconnected network of ...

New Delhi: Google has unveiled “Project Suncatcher,” a project to scale AI compute in space using solar-powered satellite constellations equipped with Google TPUs and free-space optical links. Google ...

This week, Google has gone into details on a plan to build a “scalable ML compute systems” in space. Dubbed Project Suncatcher, Google will be researching the means to build a facility for its AI TPU ...

Ever since advanced technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) came to the forefront, people have questioned their environmental cost. These technologies consume ...