Just a moonshot? Google energy head claims data centers in space would cost up to 100x more than on Earth

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Google global head of data center energy says space data centers could cost up to 100 times more than terrestrial ones

Amanda Peterson Corio's remarks came weeks after Google launched its first Suncatcher prototype, a roughly 1kW satellite that has since run Gemma 4 on an orbiting TPU, one chip at a time

Corio says the real bottleneck on Earth…