Data centres in space? Jeff Bezos says it's possible
(Updated: 04 Oct 2025 12:19AM)
TURIN :Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted on Friday gigawatt-scale data centres will be built in space within the next 10 to 20 years and that continuously available solar energy meant they would eventually outperform those based on Earth.
Speaking at the Italian Tech Week in Turin, Bezos also compared the surge in artificial intelligence to the internet boom of the early 2000s, urging optimism despite the risk of speculative bubbles.
The concept of orbital data centres has gained traction among tech giants as those on Earth have driven up demand for electricity and water to cool their servers.
"These giant training clusters, those will be better built in space, because we have solar power there, 24/7.
There are no clouds and no rain, no weather," Bezos said in a public conversation with Ferrari and Stellantis Chairman John Elkann.
"We will be able to beat the cost of terrestrial data centres in space in the next couple of decades."
Bezos said the shift to space infrastructure is part of a broader trend of using space to improve life on Earth.
"It's already happened with weather and communication satellites," he said. "The next step is data centres, then other kinds of manufacturing."
Hosting data centres in space has its own challenges, including the difficulty of maintenance and carrying out upgrades and the cost of launching rockets, as well as the risk the launches may fail.
The executive chair of Amazon said the AI wave shares traits with the dot-com era, when massive hype was followed by a crash.
"We should be extremely optimistic that the societal and beneficial consequences of AI, like we had with internet 25 years ago, are for real and there to stay," he said.
"It is important to decorrelate the potential bubbles and their bursting consequences that might or might not happen from the actual reality," Bezos said, adding that the benefits of AI were expected "to be broadly diffused and it will go everywhere".
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Good luck finding qualified technicians willing to put their lives at risk to build the data centers. A football stadium sized building orbiting Earth. Yea, right. I can see a ton of autonomous automobile sized satellites doing the same job being put into space than I can see a warehouse full of computer components being built by humans.
"Eventually" Is that the same as hot fusion power, its always 10 years away?
I would be interested in some more details. OK, they would have solar power but Ivanpah produced only 390MW on a sunny day with 6 square miles of mirrors!
Also, cooling is a major issue on earth. They get round that by using water which is not so abundant in space Using cooling water is problematic because it will first boil because of the low pressure then freeze because of the -273 deg C temperature. The heat will need to radiate into space, somehow. An interesting problem!
In space, there are no clouds, no rain and no weather.
There are just millions of tiny sand-grain size rock particles each traveling 13,000 mph which pass near Earth orbit every year and pose a huge risk to satellites.
A mile wide solar array will be a huge target.
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When in OUTER SPACE THE DIRECTED waves back to earth become somewhat distorted and this is a load of the brown stuff that falls out the south-end of a North Bound JackASS...
I am talking about Wave Theory from space to earth!~!!!!!!