Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space

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Learn about our early test to scale AI compute in space. Generative AI is experimental After years of research, Project Suncatcher is scheduled to embark on its first test in orbit, launching a prototype satellite to evaluate how Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) perform in space. Announced last year, Project Suncatcher is a long-term, research moonshot exploring whether space could one day host scalable machine learning infrastructure. Putting our first TPUs in orbit next week will help us get data and learnings to inform future launches. Cooling in space Cooling orbital data centers is a crucial research challenge.

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