Google hitches a ride aboard Elon Musk's SpaceX; to send TPUs to space

Google will launch a prototype satellite named MVP aboard SpaceX's Transporter-18 mission scheduled for October 1. This initiative is part of Project Suncatcher, which explores creating scalable machine learning infrastructure in space. Google CEO Sundar Pichai emphasized the necessity of this research for future computing demands. The project is designed to forecast the processing needs of next-generation AI technologies and aims to establish data centers in space.