By Shannon Carroll
Publication Date: 2025-12-02 16:39:00
Google has spent a decade turning “moonshot” into a brand. Now, the company is drawing a line toward the actual Moon.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai is now openly backing data centers in space, telling Fox News in a Sunday interview that the company will start launching AI hardware in 2027 and that within about 10 years, extraterrestrial infrastructure will feel like a normal way to power the AI boom.
“There’s no doubt to me that a decade or so away we’ll be viewing it as a more normal way to build data centers,” he said. So for once, Pichai’s moonshot rhetoric comes with rockets attached. And in the not-too-distant future, Google’s cloud could live far beyond the atmosphere and off the planet for good.
“At Google, we’re always proud of taking moonshots,” Pichai said. “One of our moonshots is: How do we one day have data centers in space so that we can better harness the energy from the sun, which is one hundred trillion times more energy than we produce in all of…
