Google’s Space-Based AI Data Centre Plan Faces Collision Risks in an Increasingly Crowded Orbit

Google’s orbital AI data center faces collision risks from space debris in increasingly crowded low Earth orbit.
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Google’s space data center proposal faces catastrophic collision risks in low Earth orbit

Google’s ambitious Project Suncatcher proposes launching a constellation of 81 satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO) to ...
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Google’s proposed data center in orbit will face issues with space debris in an already crowded orbit

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, University of Michigan (THE CONVERSATION) The rapid expansion ...
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Startup announces 'Galactic Brain' project to put AI data centers in orbit

Aetherflux has focused its efforts on space-based solar power, with the goal of "building an American power grid in space." ...
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What happens if AI data centres slip the ‘surly bonds of earth’?

Queries to AI models like Gemini would be processed there and the answers beamed back to Earth. The data centre would not be an orbiting monolith but a flock of 81 solar-powered satellites loaded with ...