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Google is sending an AI satellite into space next week
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It’s the first step toward Google’s goal of handling AI tasks from space.
It’s the first step toward Google’s goal of handling AI tasks from space.
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Google is getting ready to launch a satellite with its AI processors to test how well they perform in space, as reported earlier by The New York Times. The move is part of Google’s Project Suncatcher, the company’s experimental initiative that could eventually put AI data centers into orbit.
The satellite, equipped with Google’s Tensor Processing Units, will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on October 1st, allowing it to harness the power of the sun in low Earth orbit. As noted by Google, the goal of the mission is to measure how well its TPUs “handle the physical stress of spaceflight and the radiation and thermal extremes of space.”
This is just one step toward Google’s goal of putting a constellation of chip-equipped satellites into space — an idea Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt have also floated as an alternative to data centers on Earth. Google plans to put two satellites into orbit next year.