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Why tech companies want to put data centres in space
AI's hunger for electricity is running into the limits of power grids. Orbit offers constant sunlight, and a long list of engineering problems.
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Data centres
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Google's Project Suncatcher will put four AI chips in orbit on 1 October
A fridge-sized prototype satellite carrying Google TPUs launches on a SpaceX Falcon 9, the first test of Google's idea for solar-powered data centres in space.
Qualcomm lands Amazon as a data centre chip customer, and investor
A multi-generation deal covers custom AI inference silicon for AWS. Amazon gets warrants for $4 billion of Qualcomm stock, tied to up to $60 billion in business.