Igor has been writing about tech since he got his break at the Toronto Standard in 2012. While that outlet no longer exists, it gave him a chance to learn about the tech world from the perspective of Toronto's burgeoning startup community.
Google is in negotiations with SpaceX to secure the company's help in its own nascent effort to put orbital data centers in space,, the moonshot Google announced to explore the feasibility of space-based data centers, actually predates SpaceX's own foray.
Google shared news of Suncatcher last November, while Elon Musk announced that SpaceX and xAI were merging — with the intent of launching 1 million orbital data satellites —Both Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk have presented orbital data centers as an inevitability.
"There's no doubt to me that a decade or so away, we'll be viewing it as a more normal way to build data centers," Pichai toldwhether it's possible to carry out AI inference in space at scale. GPUs in satellites would be subjected to constant cosmic radiation that would affect their ability to perform error-free calculations, and cooling them in the near vacuum of space, where the only way to dissipate heat is to slowly radiate it out, is difficult.
On top of all that, putting millions of satellites in low Earth orbit is very likely to have extremely detrimental effects on the planet's atmosphere and the ability of other companies and governments to fly spacecraft safely.
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