EXPLORING A SPACE-BASED, SCALABLE AI INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEM DESIGN

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Google will launch two satellites carrying its AI chips, called TPUs, in 2027, in hopes that in the mid-2030s space-based data centers will become more cost efficient since solar panels are up to 8x effective in orbit. Project Suncatcher envisions a constellation connected by optical inter-satellite links to power distributed ML tasks, like AI inference.