Space: The Final Frontier for Gigawatt Data Centers

In a groundbreaking announcement, Amazon's Jeff Bezos revealed a visionary plan to construct gigawatt-scale data centers in space within the next two decades. Speaking at the Italian Tech Week in Turin, Bezos emphasized that these space-based centers will capitalize on the limitless supply of solar energy.

Such energy advantages could allow space-based centers to outperform their Earth counterparts, whose demand for electricity and cooling water is skyrocketing alongside the global evolution of AI and cloud computing. Highlighting space's lack of weather disruptions, Bezos asserted these orbital centers might reduce costs dramatically in the long term.

While embracing the bold shift towards extraterrestrial infrastructure, Bezos acknowledged challenges like maintenance and launch costs. However, he assured that the move to host data centers in space continues the trend of leveraging space technology to elevate life on Earth, as seen with weather and communication satellites.

(With inputs from agencies.)