data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/google” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/google”>Google just announced that it’s exploring the idea of putting AI data centers into orbit to take advantage of the sun’s solar output for power. According to data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://research.google/blog/exploring-a-space-based-scalable-ai-infrastructure-system-design/” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://research.google/blog/exploring-a-space-based-scalable-ai-infrastructure-system-design/” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>Google Research, Project Suncatcher aims to have a constellation of solar-powered satellites with Google TPUs that communicate optically. This would allow the company to run a power-hungry data center without requiring the massive infrastructure needed to build one on land.
Power is currently one of the bottlenecks of the AI infrastructure…
