GOOGLE'S FIRST SUNCATCHER ORBITAL DATA CENTER TEST LAUNCHES OCTOBER 1

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Project Suncatcher is a moonshot effort by Google to design orbital AI data centers. Its first experimental satellite will launch on October 1. Its aim will be to validate Google's vision for a constellation of AI satellites. The satellite, about the size of a refrigerator, has four custom TPU AI accelerators and solar panels that supply about one kilowatt of power. It will serve as a test of several technologies over its few months of operation.