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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Technology
Andrew Griffin

Google is sending AI to space

Google wants to put AI into space.

The move is part of a broad plan, across the tech industry and including billionaires such as Elon Musk, to launch satellites that could work as floating data centres. They hope that the extra room, cooling and energy from the Sun could become a new way of powering artificial intelligence.

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