{"id":481458,"date":"2026-05-12T20:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/481458\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T20:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:54:12","slug":"google-in-talks-to-use-spacex-to-launch-space-data-centers-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/481458\/","title":{"rendered":"Google in Talks to Use SpaceX to Launch Space Data Centers: WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/GOOGL:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Alphabet Inc.<\/a>\u2019s Google is in talks with Elon Musk\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/711339Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">SpaceX<\/a> to launch the search company\u2019s test products for orbital data centers, according to a person familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Google previously said it is exploring deals with other launch providers, including Planet, for what the company called Project Suncatcher, it said in a November <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/innovation-and-ai\/technology\/research\/google-project-suncatcher\/\" title=\"blog post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">blog post<\/a>. The company has been planning for prototype satellites to test how machine learning works in space. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alphabet Inc.\u2019s Google is in talks with Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX to launch the search company\u2019s test products for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270],"tags":[12007,15852,289,79,37911,12008,18,13247,19,17,133,451,82,384,211],"class_list":{"0":"post-481458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","9":"tag-americas","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-c-suite","13":"tag-chief-executive-officer","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-elon-reeve-musk","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-science","19":"tag-space","20":"tag-technology","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-wall-street"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}