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Google wants to move AI to space — and it might change everything. Project Suncatcher aims to deploy solar-powered AI compute satellites in orbit, tapping 8× more sunlight than Earth, using laser links to knit them together like a floating data center. No land. No cooling constraints. Nearly endless energy. If this works, we’re looking at the biggest infrastructure shift since cloud computing — AI escaping the limits of gravity itself. Space-based compute isn’t sci-fi anymore. It’s Google next moonshot.

🌌 Google Wants to Build Data Centers… in Space Google just announced one of its boldest moonshot ideas yet — Project Suncatcher — a plan to launch AI data centers into low-orbit space, powered entirely by solar energy. Why? Because today’s AI boom demands massive computing power, and traditional earth-based data centers consume enormous amounts of electricity and water. 🚀 What Google Envisions Instead of giant buildings, imagine clusters of satellites handling AI workloads from space — all fueled by the sun. But before this becomes reality, Google needs to solve some huge challenges: 1️⃣ Radiation: How much can processors endure before failing? 2️⃣ Precision: Satellite clusters must remain perfectly aligned while orbiting at high speeds. 3️⃣ Connectivity: They must stay linked together while circling Earth nonstop. The company expects early tests in 2027, but full feasibility may not come until mid-2030s. 📡 The Space Data Center Race Is Heating Up Jeff Bezos says orbiting data centers could become the most cost-efficient option soon. Elon Musk claims Starlink satellites may support similar capabilities in the future. Whether or not Google succeeds, one thing is clear: Big Tech is preparing to take cloud computing beyond Earth. Would you trust your data… in space? 👀✨ #Google #SundarPichai #AI #SpaceTech #Innovation #DataCenters #FutureOfTech #LeadGeeks #TechNews #Moonshot

Your Next AWS Bill Might Come From Outer Space 🤯 I was reading today, data centers in space might soon be a thing. Now before you say space is cold, it’s easy to cool stuff there, hold on. That’s not how it works. In space, there’s no air, no wind, no water. Just vacuum. So when your GPU starts heating up from crunching AI models, there’s nowhere for that heat to go. You can’t just install a big fan and hope for the best. So how do you cool servers out there? By glowing. Literally. When things get hot, they naturally release energy as infrared light, kind of like invisible glow. Space servers use radiator panels that let this light escape into deep space. It’s like the servers are quietly exhaling light instead of air. Now comes the next question. How do you get your data back to Earth? You can’t exactly run a LAN cable from orbit. So these systems use laser communication, beams of light carrying terabytes of data down to ground stations. Think of it as Wi-Fi from the heavens, but faster and without someone asking, what’s the Wi-Fi password again?😀 Amazon, Microsoft, and even Elon Musk’s camp have been exploring these ideas. Amazon’s Project Kuiper already plans orbital networks, and who knows, AWS Space Region 1 might be next. Why bother though? Because space offers unlimited solar energy, natural cooling through radiation, zero water usage, and a killer marketing tagline: your data, literally in the cloud. Of course, it’s not all sunshine and starlight. Radiation, latency, and maintenance are real issues. But hey, reusable rockets sounded like a joke too. So, what do you think? Are space servers the next big thing, or should we just keep our data safely grounded for now? #SpaceTech #CloudComputing #AI #Innovation #AWS #ElonMusk #DataCenters #FutureOfTech #SolarEnergy

What if the next Google Cloud isn’t on Earth at all… but in space? Google’s new Project Suncatcher is exploring a radical idea, scaling AI compute using solar-powered satellites orbiting the Earth. Picture this: compact constellations equipped with Google TPUs, linked through high-bandwidth optical connections, running on continuous solar energy, up to 8x more efficient than on Earth. As a PM, this is fascinating as it reimagines how we design scalable, sustainable infrastructure when traditional boundaries (like energy limits or land use) no longer apply. This could be the start of a new paradigm, where “the cloud” truly lives above the clouds. At this pace, the next data center technician might need more than just a badge. They might need a spacesuit! Full Research Paper: https://goo.gle/4qGsU8X Source: https://lnkd.in/gWpxaVAp

🚀 Google takes AI above the clouds – literally. Google just unveiled Project Suncatcher — an ambitious plan to deploy AI datacenters in orbit by 2027. Two satellites, each powered by Google’s custom TPUs, will run AI workloads directly in space — using uninterrupted solar power and vacuum-level cooling. Running AI beyond the atmosphere could unlock a new efficiency frontier: • No water cooling or land footprint • Constant solar input • Faster Earth-space connectivity via laser links • Potentially huge sustainability gains as launch costs keep dropping If this works, we might see entire space-based compute layers emerging — orbiting clusters training and running models for everything from weather systems to autonomous networks. The next question: Will the future of cloud computing even be on Earth? 🌍☀️🛰️ #AIInfraFrontier

Google just announced Project Suncatcher — a plan to launch solar-powered AI data centers into orbit by 2027. The idea is to take advantage of constant sunlight in space to power advanced AI systems while reducing the strain that massive data centers are putting on Earth’s power grids, land, and water supplies. These orbital servers would use Google’s TPUs (the chips that power AI models) and communicate through high-speed laser links capable of moving data at incredible rates. It’s an ambitious concept — but not without hurdles: Keeping hardware cool and protected from radiation Maintaining strong, low-latency connections between space and Earth Managing launch costs and avoiding orbital debris Figuring out how global data laws apply to servers floating above the planet Why it matters: Data centers now consume as much power as small cities, making it a real challenge to find sustainable ways to expand computing capacity. This project is Google’s attempt to rethink the problem entirely — by moving the cloud beyond Earth. It’s early, experimental, and far from reality, but it could mark the start of a new era in how we build and power technology. #Google #AI #DataCenters #CloudComputing #Sustainability #Innovation #FutureTech https://lnkd.in/eaPvnQHX

A few weeks ago, Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos set the Internet ablaze when he spoke about the transformative potential of space-based data centers over the next 10 to 20 years as performance improves, costs decline, and orbital systems become a viable alternative to terrestrial infrastructure. Mr. Bezos is one of the great prime movers in American — and global — history. His companies have reshaped foundational industries ranging from e-commerce and cloud computing to aerospace and beyond. So, naturally, his comments have added credence to the idea that the proliferation of space data centers is inevitable. At Phantom Space, we’re already taking steps toward that future by developing and preparing to deploy a mesh constellation of satellite-based micro–data centers in low Earth orbit. While these systems cannot yet compete with ground-based data centers on cost or volume, we see a clear early opportunity to establish a foothold in this market by serving the urgent and unmet need for in-orbit data backhaul, storage, and processing. Based on current supply and demand trends, we recognize that space-based compute is likely to remain undersupplied for the foreseeable future. As with the Internet decades ago, we expect the market for space computing will be large enough for a variety of players to build and scale the network and accelerate the development of other novel space activities in the process. I encourage you to watch Mr. Bezos’s full interview from Italian Tech Week to explore not only the future of data centers, but also his broader reflections on the promise of space, the future of AI, the capacity-building power of industrial bubbles, and the challenge of sustaining innovation within large organizations. https://lnkd.in/edf_-Bwk

A few weeks ago, Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos set the Internet ablaze when he spoke about the transformative potential of space-based data centers over the next 10 to 20 years as performance improves, costs decline, and orbital systems become a viable alternative to terrestrial infrastructure. Mr. Bezos is one of the great prime movers in American — and global — history. His companies have reshaped foundational industries ranging from e-commerce and cloud computing to aerospace and beyond. So, naturally, his comments have added credence to the idea that the proliferation of space data centers is inevitable. At Phantom Space, we’re already taking steps toward that future by developing and preparing to deploy a mesh constellation of satellite-based micro–data centers in low Earth orbit. While these systems cannot yet compete with ground-based data centers on cost or volume, we see a clear early opportunity to establish a foothold in this market by serving the urgent and unmet need for in-orbit data backhaul, storage, and processing. Based on current supply and demand trends, we recognize that space-based compute is likely to remain undersupplied for the foreseeable future. As with the Internet decades ago, we expect the market for space computing will be large enough for a variety of players to build and scale the network and accelerate the development of other novel space activities in the process. I encourage you to watch Mr. Bezos’s full interview from Italian Tech Week to explore not only the future of data centers, but also his broader reflections on the promise of space, the future of AI, the capacity-building power of industrial bubbles, and the challenge of sustaining innovation within large organizations. https://lnkd.in/ec_pvV3n

Jim Cantrell, great post!!! Space-based data centers are the next big step for computing. By moving our infrastructure into orbit, we can take advantage of endless solar power, natural cold temperatures for cooling, and complete isolation from physical and cyber threats on Earth. It’s a way to make computing faster, safer, and more sustainable. Plus, connecting satellites, aircraft, ships, and ground systems into one continuous network gives us global coverage and real-time performance that traditional data centers simply cannot match. What’s funny is.... we were talking about this long before Jeff Bezos or anyone else jumped on the idea making if fashionable. We saw early on that the future of data wasn’t just the cloud....it was beyond it. Our vision is building a “seabed-to-space” network where everything connects securely, from the ocean floor to orbit. While others were thinking about adding another data center region, we were already thinking about decentralized orbital hubs powered by solar energy and protected by quantum-secure technology. Now here we are... making this a reality and will be the first to make this happen! Phantom Space + Secured2 = The future of space-based infrastructure and quantum-secure communications!

What if your next data centre lived in space? 🚀 In my time working on large-scale compute/infrastructure projects, one thing keeps coming up: energy. The power bills, the cooling systems, the grid-strain, the “we’ve hit the local capacity” ceiling. Now: Google’s new research effort, Project Suncatcher, proposes something audacious: satellites in low-Earth orbit, solar panels soaking up near-constant sunlight, clusters of AI chips (TPUs) networked together via laser links, all floating 650 km above us. Here’s how I parse the big bets, from my product-manager lens (with utmost respect and mild existential dread): 1. The energy arbitrage Earth: power bills. Space: free sunlight forever. Basically, Google’s moving compute to where the electricity bill is $0 and the neighbours are astronauts. 2. The economics trade-off It costs a fortune to launch now, but by 2035, it might cost less than your data-centre’s AC bill. Spend billions once, save trillions in guilt. 3. Environmental & strategic advantage No cooling water, no land, no carbon - just photons. Finally, a “green” cloud that’s literally above the clouds. 4. The “but” section (because every bet has one) Radiation fries chips, satellites move at 17,000 mph, and debris could turn your data into confetti. Space debris is a risk, but at least it won’t go down because “us-east-1 is having issues. My hot take (🔥 ?) This is literally thinking out of a box. If Tesla took cars off oil, Google might take compute off Earth. It’s crazy to see the delta between fact and fiction reducing at this pace! (Remember the show ‘Pantheon’?) All I know is that the Google employee who just looked at Earth’s power bill and said: “Nah, we’ll take the Sun directly" NEEDS a raise!