Project Suncatcher

Source:  TH Subject:   Science and Technology Context: Google Research has unveiled Project Suncatcher, exploring AI datacentres in low-Earth orbit powered entirely by solar energy to tackle AI’s surging electricity demand. About Project Suncatcher: What it is? Project Suncatcher is a concept and research programme to place AI datacentres in low-Earth orbit (LEO), operating continuously on …

Project Suncatcher

Source:  IE Context: Google has announced Project Suncatcher, a pioneering plan to build AI-powered data centres in space to harness continuous solar energy and reduce Earth’s carbon footprint. About Project Suncatcher: What it is? Project Suncatcher is Google’s research initiative to create solar-powered AI data centres in space by deploying high-performance TPUs (Tensor Processing Units) …