Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1

Blast off Google’s first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1 Google’s experimental orbital data center will have four TPUs and only run for 15 minutes at a time.

57 Credit: Google Credit: Google Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Google is taking its first step toward making Project Suncatcher a reality. Announced last year, Suncatcher is Google’s “moonshot” effort to design orbital AI data centers, which AI boosters like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have pitched as an alternative to divisive terrestrial data centers . Google’s first experimental satellite will launch on October 1 with the aim of validating Google’s vision for a constellation of AI satellites .