Elon Musk says space will soon hold nearly all compute. Google is still finding out if its chips can work there.

While SpaceX and Nvidia plan to place a space-optimized Vera Rubin AI system in orbit by late 2027 , Google’s far more modest plan, Project Suncatcher, is to launch a test satellite with Tensor Processing Units to see whether AI data centers in space are viable. For SpaceX and Nvidia, it’s a race to get ahead in AI data centers in space, with Starmind AI 1 satellites . Never mind that the engineering challenges of cooling, radiation resistance, and repairability still haven’t been sufficiently addressed. While SpaceX and Nvidia are gung-ho to put full AI data centers in space as fast as...

Source: The New Stack