{"id":972015,"date":"2025-11-05T11:33:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T06:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=972015"},"modified":"2025-11-05T11:33:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T06:03:47","slug":"our-tpus-are-headed-to-space-google-announces-ai-data-centers-in-space-what-ceo-sundar-pichai-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/05\/our-tpus-are-headed-to-space-google-announces-ai-data-centers-in-space-what-ceo-sundar-pichai-said\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Our TPUs are headed to space!&#8217;: Google announces AI data centers in space, what CEO Sundar Pichai said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced a research initiative to build AI data centres in space, marking what the tech giant calls a new moonshot that could transform how machine learning compute is scaled. The project, called Suncatcher, envisions compact constellations of solar-powered satellites carrying Google&#8217;s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) and connected through free-space optical links. The announcement comes weeks after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted that gigawatt-scale data centres will be built in space within the next 10 to 20 years.<br \/>\nThe company announced the initiative alongside a preprint research paper titled &#8220;Towards a future space-based, highly scalable AI infrastructure system design.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Google CEO Sundar Pichai says prototype launch in 2027<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced a research initiative to build AI data centres in space, marking what the tech giant calls a new moonshot that could transform how machine learning compute is scaled. The project, called Suncatcher, envisions compact constellations of solar-powered satellites carrying Google&#8217;s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) and connected through free-space optical links. The announcement comes weeks after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted that gigawatt-scale data centres will be built in space within the next 10 to 20 years. The company announced the initiative alongside a preprint research paper titled &#8220;Towards a future space-based, highly scalable AI infrastructure system design.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}