Google is exploring a “moonshot” plan to build artificial intelligence data centers in space – the latest move in its ongoing scramble to keep pace with OpenAI and other rivals.

Dubbed “Project Suncatcher,” the still-experimental plan would aim to create a series of “solar-powered satellites” equipped with Google’s AI computer chips that could “harness the full power of the sun,” according to a little-noticed Nov. 4 blog post from the tech giant.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai admitted the company faces “significant challenges” to make it a reality, including “thermal management” of its chips and “on-orbit system reliability.”

“Like any moonshot, it’s going to require us to solve a lot of complex engineering challenges,” Pichai wrote on X. “Early research shows our Trillium-generation TPUs

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