Project Suncatcher
Planet's initiative to place compute (initially Google TPUs) in orbit, enabling space-based AI inference at lower cost and energy footprint than terrestrial data centers, in partnership with Google.
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"Their first data center in space is now up and running. It's a prototype satellite from Project Suncatcher built by Planet Labs, as you said, carrying four of Google's TPU AI chips."
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"SpaceX launched the next batch of astronauts to the ISS, and also launched Google's TPUs into orbit for Project Suncatcher."
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