Google targets 2027 for launch of space data centres

Earlier this month, the technology giant announced it was developing Project Suncatcher, aimed at creating more efficient, solar-powered data centers.

However, now speaking with Fox News on Sunday, Pichai confirmed that Google‘s plan is to launch space-based data centres within the next few years.

“We are taking our first step in ’27,” he said. “We’ll send tiny, tiny racks of machines, and have them in satellites, test them out, and then start scaling from there.”

Pichai added that within ten years, constructing off-planet data centres will seem routine.

“One of our moonshots is to, how do we one day have data centres in space so that we can better harness the energy from the sun that is 100 trillion times more energy than what we produce on all of Earth today?” Pichai said.

The move follows Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos recently claiming space-based solar data centres will be operating within 20 years.

“One of the things that’s going to happen next – is we’re going to start building these giant gigawatt data centres in space,” says Jeff.

“These giant training clusters, those will be better built in space, because we have solar power there, 24/7. There are no clouds and no rain, no weather.

“We will be able to beat the cost of terrestrial data centres in space in the next couple of decades,” he added.

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