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AWS CEO throws cold water on AI data centers in space

AWS CEO Matt Garman said space data centers are unlikely to be practical for another decade or two. Expensive rocket launches, heat management, radiation, and server costs pose major hurdles, he said.

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AWS CEO throws cold water on AI data centers in space

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AWS CEO Matt Garman said orbital data centers are "highly unlikely" to become "economically feasible or practical in the next decade or two."
"We as a world don't do one launch a day today," said Garman, the CEO of Amazon Web Services, adding, "We're landing in a data center today one GPU every 14 seconds.
Earlier this year, SpaceX said it aims to build a "constellation of a million satellites that operate as orbital data centers" and that it had begun hiring engineers to make the vision a reality.

AWS CEO Matt Garman said space data centers are unlikely to be practical for another decade or two. Expensive rocket launches, heat management, radiation, and server costs pose major hurdles, he said.

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