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Mark Humphries
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Data Centers in Space + A.I. Policy on the Right + A Gemini History Mystery
Google’s Project Suncatcher treats orbital AI infrastructure as a long-horizon response to Earth’s land, permitting, grid and community constraints.A dawn-dusk orbit could make solar panels up to eight times more productive, but launch costs remain many times terrestrial equivalents and repairs may require robots.A 2027 two-satellite prototype with Planet will test whether this option can move from moonshot to scalable compute as AI demand grows.