Jeff Bezos says 2-3 year timeline for space data centers is a ‘little ambitious’
Jeff Bezos speaks to CNBC’s Squawk Box on May 20, 2026 in Merrit Island, Florida.
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says bringing data centers to space is a “very realistic” outcome but could take longer than expected.
“Some of the timelines we’re hearing are very short,” he told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin on Wednesday, referring to plans to bring data centers into orbit within the next two to three years. “They’re probably not right.”
One of the obstacles to data centers in space is energy. He says chip costs must fall and launch costs must also become cheaper to make more room for energy in data center budgets.
Blue Origin submitted plans to the Federal Communications Commission in March to send 51,600 data center satellites into low Earth orbit as part of an initiative called “Project Sunrise.”
The satellites will be powered by Blue Origin’s planned constellation called TeraWave. Blue Origin has sought regulatory approval to launch TeraWave, saying it hopes to begin deploying the constellation in the fourth quarter of 2027.
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