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Data centers in space
AI demand is exploding, but Earth's grid is capped. We aren't just limited by chips anymore; we are running out of power.
"The Sun emits 100 trillion times humanity's total electricity production."
In space, there is no night, no clouds, and no atmosphere to dim the light. Solar panels receive 8x more energy annually than on Earth.
Building a massive "Death Star" station is too risky. Instead, Google proposes a swarm architecture.
They act as one giant virtual computer, solving the heat and redundancy problems of monolithic designs.
Conventional wisdom says you need expensive "space-hardened" chips. Google proved otherwise.
Survived 5-year equivalent radiation dose with 0 permanent failures.
We can use standard, off-the-shelf AI hardware. This crashes the cost barrier.
The economics are flipping. As launch costs plummet via Space/Starship, we approach a critical crossover.
Target: Mid-2030s
If launch costs hit $200/kg, launching a server becomes cheaper than paying for its 5-year electricity bill on Earth.
A data center that orbits every country but belongs to none. It's the ultimate offshore jurisdiction.
"The country that dominates the orbit, dominates the compute."
This visualization is built upon the engineering research and system architecture proposed by Google.
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