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Learn about Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space

Learn about Google's Project Suncatcher, how we’re testing hardware survival for space, designing cooling systems for AI chips, and more. Learn about our early test to scale AI compute in space. In a new video series, the Project Suncatcher team explores the science behind this moonshot, what they've found, and the engineering challenges that remain to be solved.

Google Gearing Up to Launch Experimental 'Data Center' Into Space Next Week

Google is gearing up to launch a fridge-sized data center satellite with the horsepower equivalent of a single server. As the New York Times reports, the prototype satellite is part of the tech giant’s Project Suncatcher. As its name suggests, the goal is to take advantage of unfiltered sunlight around the clock to power AI data centers in our planet’s orbit — instead of crushing the electrical grid, spewing copious amounts of pollution, and draining fresh water supplies back on the ground.

Automating Datacenter Operations at Dropbox

Switch provisioning at Dropbox is handled by a Pirlo component called the TOR Starter. The TOR Starter is responsible for validating and configuring switches in our datacenter server racks, PoP server racks, and at the different layers of our datacenter fabric that connect racks in the same facility together. Writing the TOR Starter on top of the ClusterOps queue provides us with a basic manager-worker queuing service.