Sundar Pichai on Google's new space data center effort, Project Suncatcher:

"We will have a nice 'hello world' moment coming up... We'll get a chance to say hello to the TPUs, which I'm really excited about.

I think we are taking the early steps, but we are deeply committed to the journey. The team is world-class, and in a 10-to-20-year time frame, they're going to have amazing milestones. That's what I'm excited about.

If you think through it from a first-principles standpoint, with energy availability and sun-synchronous orbits, getting access to 24/7 energy is a pretty good reason. There'll be more reasons, I think.

We have so many opportunities to use the physical space, the constrained physical space on planet Earth. The data centers today look big to us, but they are not... It is tough for us to exponentially extrapolate our compute needs 20 years out, so I don't think Earth would look nice if that's how you plan to do it."