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AWS CEO Matt Garman: Data centers in space are at least 10 to 20 years away.
"I think that it is highly unlikely to be economically feasible or practical in the next decade or two.
It sounds good. You get free energy and it’s up there somewhere. Launches are still relatively infrequent and expensive. One person is not going to fix it. We as a world don’t do one launch a day today.
We’re landing in a data center today one GPU every 14 seconds. So we don’t do a launch a day for the world, and that’s just us doing one GPU.
A rack of GPUs might weigh a ton. I don’t even know if you can stick that on a launch vehicle or how many you can get up there.
People talk about gigawatt data centers and megawatts of racks. Most solar panels drive kilowatts, not gigawatts. So you need these gigantic things that are up there.
They’re really hot. Everyone’s like, space is cold. Space also doesn’t have air. Dissipating heat in space is actually quite hard.
It’s just a really hard environment. There’s radiation everywhere. It’s going to be way more expensive to build servers, from a serviceability point of view.
These are all technically solvable problems, and it’s just going to take a while. I’m not saying any one of these things is impossible. I just think that it’s way far out."
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