Google just put AI hardware into orbit.
Project Suncatcher has reached space and established contact. Now comes the test that actually matters:
Can those TPUs sustain useful computation?
Heat and radiation can reduce productive uptime. And even successful computation doesn’t prove the economics work.
So I’m watching two things:
1. Sustained TPU uptime within thermal limits
2. Cost per completed workload
Until those numbers arrive, this is an important infrastructure experiment, not proof that orbital AI can relieve Earth’s data-center power constraint.
Project Suncatcher has reached space and established contact. Now comes the test that actually matters:
Can those TPUs sustain useful computation?
Heat and radiation can reduce productive uptime. And even successful computation doesn’t prove the economics work.
So I’m watching two things:
1. Sustained TPU uptime within thermal limits
2. Cost per completed workload
Until those numbers arrive, this is an important infrastructure experiment, not proof that orbital AI can relieve Earth’s data-center power constraint.