Project Suncatcher is Google’s long-term research moonshot, first announced last year, exploring whether massive AI computing infrastructure could eventually operate in space.

Google has launched a satellite to find out whether data centers can run in space. A prototype satellite containing four of Google’s artificial-intelligence chips, called Tensor Processing Units, was ...

Google and SpaceX are reportedly in talks for a deal to launch AI data centers into space. Credit: Saul Loeb-Pool/Getty Images Remember Elon Musk's plan to put AI data centers in space? It appears ...

The fridge-size satellite with AI chips on board is part of Project Suncatcher, the company's moonshot effort to put AI data centers in space and harness solar energy.

Next Thursday, Google is sending an experimental satellite into orbit that will have enough computing power to answer simple A.I. queries from space.

Google is discussing a potential rocket-launch deal with SpaceX, according to The Wall Street Journal, the latest potential agreement among tech companies eyeing the creation of artificial ...