Google is launching its AI chips into space — Project Suncatcher MVP sports four TPUs and will be delivered by a SpaceX rocket
THE SO WHAT
Running TPUs on-orbit is a step toward space-native AI compute—processing EO data, comms, and autonomy workloads without hauling everything back to Earth. If you build for geospatial, satcom, or defense, start assuming an architecture where inference happens in space and your ground stack is orchestration, not raw processing.
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