Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1

Google is taking its first step toward making Project Suncatcher a reality. Announced last year, Suncatcher is Google's "moonshot" effort to design orbital AI data centers, which AI boosters like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have pitched as an alternative to divisive terrestrial data centers . Google's first experimental satellite will launch on October 1 with the aim of validating Google's vision for a constellation of AI satellites .