AI BriefingGoogle Reviewing Orbital AI Data Centers
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Google is discussing building orbital AI data centers with SpaceX.
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Google and SpaceX are discussing plans to launch orbital AI data centers. The Wall Street Journal reported, citing anonymous sources, that the two companies are in related negotiations.
Google is also in contact with other rocket launch companies, and as part of Project Suncatcher, which it unveiled late last year, plans to launch prototype satellites by 2027. The discussions coincide with SpaceX's preparations for a $1.75 trillion IPO.
Elon Musk argues that orbital data centers have lower operating costs and can avoid the local opposition that ground-based construction faces in the US. However, critics still point out that when satellite manufacturing and launch costs are included, ground-based data centers are far cheaper, and Google previously invested $900 million in SpaceX in 2015.
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