Hyperscalers are gobbling up land for AI data centers and now Google is mapping out property in space. Known as Project Suncatcher, the plan is to launch solar-powered networks of orbiting Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) — Google’s custom-developed machine learning accelerator chips — connected by free-space optical links. Apparently, Google feels that deploying high-performance TPUs in space would not be that different from the satellites that relay Internet communications from orbit. A big advantage over Earth-based AI factories is proximity to the sun, which emits “more power than 100 trillion times humanity’s total electricity production,” per Google. Continue reading Google Shares Moonshot Plan to Build Data Center in Space

Nvidia has struck a series of deals with South Korea’s tech leaders that will result in more than 250,000 of its chips deployed across that country. Included in the frenzy of activity are Samsung Electronics, which is teaming with Nvidia to build an AI “megafactory” that will use more than 50,000 Nvidia GPUs for an intelligent manufacturing facility that will produce state-of-the-art processors that will be used in mobile devices, and robotics, among other things. Nvidia also has South Korean AI factories in the works with Hyundai and manufacturing conglomerate SK Group. The announcements were made as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attended the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings. Continue reading Nvidia Talks Up Robotics and AI Megafactory with Samsung