In an ambitious move that feels straight out of science fiction, Google has unveiled Project Suncatcher — a “moonshot” initiative that envisions launching AI-powered data centers into space. The goal? To harness the near-limitless potential of solar energy and overcome the growing environmental and energy challenges faced by terrestrial data centers.

The project, revealed by Google senior director Travis Beals in a company blog post, aims to deploy Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) aboard solar-powered satellites orbiting Earth. These satellites would function as data centers, running on solar energy that’s continuously available in space — an advantage that could make them up to eight times more productive than solar facilities on Earth.

“In the future, space may be the best place

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