What Happens When AI Data Centres Leave Earth?
RinggCity 53rd Edition | Published on 25 Sep 2026
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This week in AI
1 . Could AI help discover a new gene-editing tool?
Anthropic says Claude identified a previously unknown enzyme system similar to CRISPR after analysing ~200k reverse transcriptases.
2 . Could AI data centres move to space?
Google is testing AI processors in orbit as part of Project Suncatcher, exploring whether satellites could eventually handle AI computing.
3 . Can an AI agent hack a government system?
An OpenAI-powered AI agent was used to breach parts of Australia's government IT systems, including a Medicare-related portal.
Our take
What Happens When AI Data Centres Leave Earth?
Google's Project Suncatcher sounds futuristic, but the reason behind it is very practical: AI needs enormous amounts of computing power, and data centres are becoming increasingly constrained by land, electricity and cooling.
Putting AI hardware in orbit could eventually offer access to constant solar power and sidestep some of those constraints. But getting processors to work reliably in space, communicating with them and bringing the economics down to earth are very different problems.
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AI product & startup updates
Amazon puts AI agents to work for sellers
Amazon launched a new agentic AI service for third-party sellers that can automate tasks such as creating product listings and managing inventory.
- Meta unveiled Charm, a small AI-powered device designed to work with Muse, marking another push towards dedicated AI hardware.
- Snorkel AI raised $350M at a $3.5B valuation, as demand grows for specialised training data and reinforcement-learning environments for frontier AI models.
- Alibaba unveiled a new AI chip and plans for a 5-10 trillion-parameter model, while targeting more than 20GW of data-centre capacity by 2032.
- Ema raised $77M, taking its total funding to $100M as it builds AI workforce tools for enterprises.
Footnotes
AI data centres are going to space.
Apparently Earth's electricity bill wasn't enough.

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