Sundar Pichai’s ‘crazy example’ of Google Suncatcher project has company’s TPU meeting Tesla Roadster somewhere in Space

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has discussed the ambitious Project Suncatcher, the company’s plan to build compact satellite data centres in space. The initiative aims to harness direct solar energy to power these centres, significantly reducing the strain on Earth’s power grids. Pichai set a key internal milestone: deploying the company’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) into orbit by 2027 while also humorously speculating that the advanced AI hardware might eventually run into the famous Tesla Roadster orbiting in space.

Google’s ‘2027 milestone’ and space encounter with the Tesla Roadster