Bezos says data centres in space likely within 20 years
Jeff Bezos, the founder and executive head of Amazon, estimates that Gigawatt scale data centers will be built in space in the next 10 to 20 years and will perform better than territorial ones thanks to the abundance of uninterrupted solar energy.
The number of enormous centers that storage the calculation infrastructure is growing exponentially as the world is increasingly using more artificial intelligence and cloud information, and provides an increase in electricity and water to cool its servers.
“One of the things that will be the next row – when I am exactly 10 plus years and I bet – we will begin to build these giant Gigawatt data centers in space,” he said during a conversation next to a fire with Ferrari and Stellantis President John Elkann.
The concept of space -based data centers gains traction among major technology companies, because energy to maintain such operations in the world is increasing sharply.
“These giant training clusters will be built better in space, because there is solar energy, 7/24. There is no cloud and rain, no weather,” he said.
“In the next few decades, we will be able to exceed the cost of terrestrial data centers in space.”
Bezos said that the transition to the orbit infrastructure is part of the tendency to use space to improve life on earth.
“The air was already on the satellites. The communication was already on the satellites. The next step will be data centers and then other types of production,” he said.
However, hosting data centers in space has its own challenges such as limited scope and rocket launch costs for cumbersome maintenance, upgrades, as well as the risk of unsuccessful rocket launches.
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