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Google is sending an experimental satellite carrying 4 TPUs into space on October 1
MVP, the first Project Suncatcher satellite, was built with Planet and is about the size of a fridge. It launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 mission. The aim is to see whether data-center-class accelerators survive launch, radiation, thermal extremes and sustained operation; the satellite carries enough compute to answer simple Gemini queries from orbit. Cooling is still the limit: the design combines heat pipes and radiators and can run in bursts of roughly 15 minutes before the TPUs must stop.
Sources
- The New York Times, “Google Takes the A.I. Data Center Race to Outer Space”, (nytimes.com)
- Google (The Keyword), “Behind Project Suncatcher, our moonshot to put AI in space”, (blog.google)
- Google (The Keyword), “Our Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is in orbit.”, (blog.google)
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