Overview
- CEO Sundar Pichai said Google will send “tiny, tiny racks” of TPUs on satellites as a first step in early 2027.
- Fortune reports Google plans two pilot satellites in partnership with Planet to validate the hardware in Earth orbit.
- Project Suncatcher envisions swarms of solar-powered satellites running TPUs and linking over laser communications instead of fiber.
- Pichai projected that extraterrestrial facilities could be seen as a normal way to build data centers in about a decade.
- Google is simultaneously expanding on Earth with a $40 billion Texas buildout, as rivals like Starcloud test AI hardware in space.