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Re:Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers by eldenring on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @01:47AM (#46285533)
Google did a study with their TPU v6

> For ML accelerators to be effective in space, they must withstand the environment of low-Earth orbit. We tested Trillium, Google’s v6e Cloud TPU, in a 67MeV proton beam to test for impact from total ionizing dose (TID) and single event effects (SEEs). > > The results were promising. While the High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) subsystems were the most sensitive component, they only began showing irregularities after a cumulative dose of 2 krad(Si) — nearly three times the expected (shielded) five year mission dose of 750 rad(Si). No hard failures were attributable to TID up to the maximum tested dose of 15 krad(Si) on a single chip, indicating that Trillium TPUs are surprisingly radiation-hard for space applications.

Re:Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers by remarkEon on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @03:57PM (#46294348)
Do you have a link to this?
Re:Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers by aspenmayer on Saturday December 20, 2025 @04:50AM (#46334877)
I'm not the person you asked, but it appears to be a direct quote from this page, previously on HN:

Exploring a space-based, scalable AI infrastructure system design - https://research.google/blog/exploring-a-space-based-scalabl... - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45813267 (Nov 4 2025, 44 points, 73 comments)

> Project Suncatcher is a moonshot exploring a new frontier: equipping solar-powered satellite constellations with TPUs and free-space optical links to one day scale machine learning compute in space.