Google Launches Prototype Satellite for AI Data Centers in Space
Google has launched a prototype satellite, built with Planet Labs, aboard a SpaceX rocket to test the feasibility of housing artificial-intelligence computing infrastructure in space. This marks a significant first step in the company's ambition to establish AI data centers beyond Earth.
Google NASDAQ:GOOGL has taken its first physical step toward moving artificial-intelligence computing infrastructure into space, launching a prototype satellite built with Planet Labs (PL) aboard a SpaceX NASDAQ:SPCX rocket. The mission gives Alphabet an early test of whether its Tensor Processing U…