Google in Talks With SpaceX, Others About Future Launches for Project Suncatcher

Alphabet’s Google is in discussions with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and others about future rocket launches for the company’s planned data centers in space. Google announced its Project Suncatcher in November, outlining its plan to develop solar-powered, space-based data centers for artificial intelligence (AI) computing. “We have been in discussions with SpaceX and others regarding future Suncatcher launches,” a Google spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email May 12. The company said in its announcement last year that it was exploring how an interconnected network of solar-powered satellites, equipped with Google’s Tensor Processing Unit AI chips, could harness the full power of the Sun....