Google CEO Sundar Pichai says we’re just a decade away from a new normal of extraterrestrial data centers

Google’s “moonshot” aspirations to expand its AI footprint are taking on a more literal meaning. 

CEO Sundar Pichai said in a Fox News interview in December Google will soon begin construction of AI data centers in space. The tech giant announced Project Suncatcher late last year, with the goal of finding more efficient ways to power energy-guzzling centers, in this case with solar power.

“One of our moonshots is to, how do we one day have data centers in space so that we can...