Google's first data center satellite is online — a TPU in space running Gemma 4
TechCrunch AI · rss · 2026-10-31
Google's first data center satellite is now online. It carries the first TPU ever deployed in space, running a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model that's writing cheesy poetry — a landmark step toward putting AI inference compute in orbit.
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