{"id":666701,"date":"2026-05-12T20:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/666701\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T20:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:19:09","slug":"google-in-talks-to-use-spacex-to-launch-space-data-centers-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/666701\/","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":666702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[24885,2942,254,64,63,99,53532,5175,53114,128,285,105,1055,1491],"class_list":["post-666701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","tag-americas","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-c-suite","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-elon-reeve-musk","tag-science","tag-space","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-wall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}