TechCrunchTim Fernholz
Google thinks SpaceX’s Starship has to launch 1,800 times before space data centers get off the ground
Built byPlanet Labs, the satellite will prove that a Google Tensor Processing Unit, its competitor to Nvidia’s GPUs, can function in space.
Those future versions will attempt to collaborate via a laser communications link.Suncatcher isn’t the only space AI payload on this SpaceX rocket, which is launching more than 100 different payloads, including missions fromSatlytand Cowboy Space Company.What sets the Google initiative apart from those startups (and indeed from SpaceX itself) is that it’s a long-term project.The focus of this “long-term moonshot,” as Beals puts it, is on building for the space infrastructure and AI workloads that will exist in the future.
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