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Overview
- A Wall Street Journal report Tuesday said Google is negotiating with SpaceX to launch data centers in orbit that run AI tasks.
- Neither company offered immediate comment to Reuters, keeping terms and timing at the planning stage.
- Google’s Project Suncatcher envisions solar-powered satellites linked as an orbital cloud and equipped with TPUs, the company’s custom AI chips.
- The plan includes a prototype targeted around 2027 with Planet Labs, and Google is also in talks with other launch providers.
- Reporters describe the push as costly and technically hard, and say SpaceX sees orbital compute as a strategic priority that some link to a possible IPO.