Just a moonshot? Google energy head claims data centers in space would cost up to 100x more than on Earth
- Google global head of data center energy says space data centers could cost up to 100 times more than terrestrial ones
- Amanda Peterson Corio's remarks came weeks after Google launched its first Suncatcher prototype, a roughly 1kW satellite that has since run Gemma 4 on an orbiting TPU, one chip at a time
- Corio says the real bottleneck on Earth is permitting rather than power, the same politics that backers of orbital compute claim they can escape
Google has spent the past month showing off AI chips working in orbit, but the executive responsible for powering its data centers back on Earth has just put a sobering price on the idea.
Speaking at The Information's recent WTF Summit in Napa Valley, Amanda Peterson Corio, Google's global head of data center energy, said data centers in space could cost up to 100 times as much as those built on the ground.
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