Is Google's plan to put AI data centers in space a good idea?
Google unveiled Project Suncatcher, a moonshot plan to launch satellites carrying AI chips and eventually run solar-powered AI data centers in space.
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LEO (low earth orbit) is already jam packed with satellites. People don't seem to understand that we are one catastrophic collision away from seriously disrupting technologies that we count on every day. We have treated space as sort of a wild west space where governments and companies plop satellites in at will. It becomes a question of when not if we have a serious problem. Cleaning chunks of space debris that are moving at roughly 17,000 MPH isn't as easy as "clean up on aisle 7."
That risk is real, for sure. One bad collision in a crowded LEO could easily cascade into more (the Kessler syndrome) and leave some orbits unusable for decades, if not longer.
Not just Google, but also SpaceX, Axiom and others. All are putting real money behind it, so as challenging as it sounds, I'm guessing the prospects are real.