Just a moonshot? Google energy head claims data centers in space would cost up to 100x more than on Earth

Just a moonshot? Google energy head claims data centers in space would cost up to 100x more than on Earth

Google is running AI chips in orbit, but its own data center energy chief says space data centers could, if scaled, cost up to 100x as much as building on Earth.

SCIENCE & TECH: Just a moonshot? Google energy head claims data centers in space would cost up to 100x more than on Earth

Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter 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 r…