In early November, Google announced Project Suncatcher, a moonshot project that aims to create satellite constellations that work as a data center in space. The plan itself has merit, and the tech giant is not the first to have thought of it. What raised quite a few eyebrows was a comment Google CEO Sundar Pichai made in a Fox News interview on Sunday. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

“One of our moonshots is [...] how do we one day have data centers in space so that we can better harness the energy from the Sun that is 100 trillion times more energy than what we produce on all of Earth today?” Pichai said .

It’s clear that big numbers sell when it comes to Wall Street and investors. CEOs would not be using them oth

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