Google thinks SpaceX’s Starship has to launch 1,600 times before space data centers get off the ground

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Google’s prototype of its orbital compute satellite took off today onboard a SpaceX rocket launched from California — the first time the tech giant has sent one of its advanced chips into space. Built by Planet Labs, the satellite will prove that a Google Tensor Processing Unit, its competitor to Nvidia’s GPUs, can function in space. Suncatcher isn’t the only space AI payload on this SpaceX rocket, which is launching more than one hundred different payloads, including missions from Satlyt and Cowboy Space Company.

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