Reuters: Google wins deal to provide cloud services to Elon Musk's SpaceX, launching a series of satellites Starlink to provide high speed internet.
SpaceX will create ground stations in Google data centers connected to Starlink satellites, enabling fast and secure internet services through the Google Cloud, Google said.
This service is expected to be available in the second half of 2021.
The deal comes at a time when demand for cloud services-computing έχει αυξηθεί, με players such as Microsoft Corp and Amazon.com Inc to dominate the market. Cloud companies have also tapped into the telecom sector due to increased demand for 5G connectivity.
Η business Google's cloud accounts for about 7% of its total revenue since the last earnings report.
Last October, Microsoft won a similar deal from SpaceX to connect the platform computers Azure cloud with Starlink.
The private company SpaceX, known for its reusable rockets, increases production of satellites for Starlink, a growing fleet of hundreds of satellites with internet radiation which Musk hopes will generate enough revenue to help fund SpaceX's interplanetary goals.
