Google’s first data center satellite is online and writing poetry (opens techcrunch.com)
The first TPU in space is running a Gemma 4 model on Google's data center satellite.
Context: Powerlattice makes a power delivery chiplet it says cuts AI compute power needs by more than 50%; it raised $31M in 2025.
From GeekWire: Filing: Vancouver, WA-based Powerlattice, which makes a power delivery chiplet to reduce AI compute power needs by 50%+, raised $86M, after raising $31M in 2025 — Powerlattice, a Vancouver, Wash.-based startup developing chips that cut the power demands of AI processors, has raised $86 million…
Powerlattice · $86MAs stated by GeekWire.
The first TPU in space is running a Gemma 4 model on Google's data center satellite.
General Compute is betting on inference chips from outside the Nvidia ecosystem.
It is the first time Google is supplying its TPUs to another hyperscaler.
The financing gives SpaceX another way to fund its rapidly expanding AI ambitions without relying solely on traditional debt markets.
As it prepares to go public, Anthropic's S-1 filing makes generative AI's methane dependency glaringly obvious. "Competition for access to electrical supply and data center locations with adequate power availability is intense." In documents filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission…
Musk says SpaceX secured $40 billion in debt financing to buy AI chips, and that debt markets have shut off credit for AI data center firms, with 200+ neoclouds facing "death and consolidation".