Google is sending an AI satellite into space next week
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Google’s Project Suncatcher test — AI processors in orbit as a proto “space data center” — pushes compute closer to where space data is generated. For operators in geospatial, climate, and defense, assume a future where some inference happens in orbit and revisit how that would change your ground infra and data contracts.
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