Why in the News?
Google Research unveiled Project Suncatcher, a research initiative exploring AI datacentres in low Earth orbit powered entirely by solar energy, aimed at addressing the rapidly rising electricity demand of advanced AI systems.
What is Project Suncatcher
- A concept and research programme
- Proposes placing AI datacentres in Low Earth Orbit
- Datacentres operate continuously on solar power
- Designed to handle energy intensive AI workloads
- Developed under Google Research
Objectives
- Reduce the energy footprint of AI
- Enable round the clock clean solar power
- Decouple AI compute growth from
- Terrestrial power grids
- Land constraints
- Water intensive cooling systems
- Support long term scalability of AI infrastructure
Prelims Pointers
- Orbit used: Low Earth Orbit
- Power source: Solar energy only
- Developed by: Google Research
- Key orbit type: Sun synchronous orbit
- Core challenge addressed: AI energy demand
- Emphasis on inter satellite communication over Earth links
| [2020] With the present state of development, Artificial Intelligence can effectively do which of the following?
1. Bring down electricity consumption in industrial units 2. Create meaningful short stories and songs 3. Disease diagnosis 4. Text-to-Speech Conversion 5. Wireless transmission of electrical energy Select the correct answer using the code given below: (a) 1, 2, 3 and 5 only (b) 1, 3 and 4 only (c) 2, 4 and 5 only (d) 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 |
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