On Tuesday, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) Web Services CEO Matt Garman said the idea of putting data centers in space remains impractical and uneconomical.
AI Boom Is Pushing Limits Of Earth-Based Data Centers
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence is driving unprecedented demand for computing power, electricity and cooling, pushing cloud providers to the limits of traditional, land-based data centers.
Those pressures have sparked interest across the tech industry in unconventional alternatives, including deploying data centers in orbit, where solar energy is abundant and cooling challenges could be reduced.
However, the AWS CEO made it clear that such ideas remain firmly in the realm of long-term speculation.
Speaking at the Cisco AI Summit in San Francisco, Garman said the physical and economic realities of building infrastructure in space make the concept far from viable today.
