It's an experiment to see how the chips hold up in the harsh vacuum of the cosmos.

Project Suncatcher is Google’s long-term research moonshot, first announced last year, exploring whether massive AI computing infrastructure could eventually operate in space. T

Google is taking its AI ambitions into orbit with Project Suncatcher, a plan to test AI data centers in space using solar-powered satellites and its TPU chips.

Google will launch a prototype satellite to evaluate how its artificial intelligence (AI) chips perform in space, the company said on Thursday. "In low Earth orbit, satellites can access near-constant sunlight,