Meet Project Suncatcher, Google’s plan to put AI data centers in space
7mon 15d ago by sopuli.xyz/u/Fubarberry in gai@sopuli.xyz from arstechnica.com
Google is already zapping TPUs with radiation to get ready.
None of this is going to happen.
Multiple articles have come out in the past week with techbros blathering about putting giant stacks of power-hungry compute in fucking orbit, and not a single one of them has explained how a) any of it is going to be cooled and b) how any of it will be even remotely (as in, within 2 orders of magnitude) cost-competive with data centers on the ground.
This is a scam seeking to part extremely rich fools from their money.
Trust me Bro. Give me one more billion Bro. I need GPU and compute Bro. Just one more then it will be AGI. Just one more. /s
Suncatcher is a lame name. What about ikarus!
I am ok with this but the life cycle on the GPUs is much shorter than a normal satellite. Free power via solar instead of coal is awesome.