The founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, predicted that in the next 10 to 20 years data centers will be built at gigawatt scale in space, and that continuously available solar energy would mean that they would eventually exceed those found on earth.
In his speech at the Italian Technology Week in Turin, Bezos also compared the rise of artificial intelligence with the Internet boom of the two thousandsses, urging optimism despite the risk of speculative bubbles.
The concept of orbital data centers has gained strength among technological giants as Earth’s have increased the demand for electricity and water to cool their servers.
“These gigantic training centers will be better built in space, because we have solar energy 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. There are no clouds, or rain, or bad weather,” Bezos said in a public conversation with John Elkann, executive president of Ferrari and president of Stellantis.
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“In the next two decades we can exceed the cost of land data centers in space.”
Bezos said that change towards space infrastructure is part of a broader tendency to use space to improve life on earth.
“It has already happened with weather and communications satellites,” he said. “The next step is the data centers, and then other types of manufacturing.”
Hold them in data centers in space presents their own challenges, including the difficulty of maintenance and performing updates and the cost of launching rockets, in addition to the risk that the launches fail.
Amazon’s executive president said that the artificial intelligence wave shares features with the Era of Puntocom, when a massive exaggeration was followed by a fall.
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“We should be extremely optimistic that the social and beneficial consequences of artificial intelligence, such as those we had with the Internet 25 years ago, are real and persist,” he said.
“It is important to uncover the potential bubbles and their outbreak consequences that may or may not occur with the current reality,” said Bezos, adding that the benefits of artificial intelligence are expected to “spread widely and reach everywhere.”
With Reuters information
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