Google is launching AI chips into space to see if they survive up there
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Highly anticipated: Google plans to launch an experimental satellite carrying AI chips next month, taking its first step toward testing whether AI computing can operate reliably in orbit. The satellite, called MVP, is scheduled to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. It will be the first orbital test of Project Suncatcher, Google's effort to explore whether networks of solar-powered satellites could function as space-based data centers for AI workloads.
MVP is not a data center. It is a small test platform carrying four of Google's tensor processing units, or TPUs. The chips provide roughly the computing capacity of a single data-center server. Solar panels will produce about one kilowatt of electricity, enough to operate the processors and handle short AI requests.
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