2026-11-02 02:47 UTC
Google's AI satellite sends a very expensive haiku to Earth
And as the satellite passed over Svalbard, Norway, the orbiting AI model responded over the downlink:
Blue marble below,
Data streams in silent grace,
Starlight feeds my core. ✨
Those roughly 20 tokens would cost about $0.000012 if generated through the Google Cloud API, based on Gemma 4 26B’s pricing of $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens, excluding input costs.
Add in a satellite weighing perhaps 500 kg, based on the mass of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites, and a retail launch price of around $7,000 per kg, and you have a very expensive haiku.
This is the most astronomically far from art as you can get.
Replies (5)
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@BioMan@awful.systems 2026-11-02 03:15
The pathological mythologization of space in our civilization never ceases to be morbidly fascinating to me.
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@Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 2026-11-02 03:23
Flying high in space Slowly falling back to earth Oops, rods from the gods
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@_stranger_@lemmy.world 2026-11-02 03:32
“Look at how good us billionaires are at squandering collective effort”
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@mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2026-11-02 06:45
‘data center’ lmfao
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@Brainsploosh@lemmy.world 2026-11-02 07:05
Why would you need an orbiting data center? Is there a lot of call for low latency llm on the ISS or military satellites? Is there any particular reason it needs to avoid jurisdiction? I just can’t think of any benign reason for one.