Google put 4 Trillium v6e TPUs in orbit to run Gemini inference.

Each run lasts 15 minutes, then shuts down so radiators dump heat.

Its own whitepaper: 1,800 Starship launches per space datacenter.

Orbital sunlight is free. Launch mass is not. #SpaceCompute

Why it matters: it's a hardware stress test for #SpaceCompute against launch vibration, radiation, and thermal cycling. With ~8× the solar energy of ground arrays, we're watching the first step toward #OrbitalDataCenters. Next: a 2027 demo paving the way for 81-satellite clusters. (2/2)