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Jeff Bezos Has a Plan to Curb AI's Carbon Footprint: Send Data Centers to Space
Jeff Bezos described AI investment as an industrial bubble that drives innovation and predicted space-based gigawatt data centers powered by continuous solar energy within 10 to 20 years.
- On Oct. 3, Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and Blue Origin founder, acknowledged an AI 'industrial bubble' and predicted gigawatt-scale orbital data centers within 10 to 20 years at Italian Tech Week 2025 in Turin.
- Amid growing environmental concern, the International Energy Agency report found Earth-based data centers' water use is around 560 billion liters per year, increasing resource strain.
- Tests and prototypes, including the 'Freedom' data center payload and Lonestar Data Holdings' book-sized test, show orbit offers 24/7 solar power and cooling as SpaceX reusable rockets cut launch costs.
- Bezos said industrial bubbles accelerate innovation as investors fund winners, while experts note Nvidia and OpenAI anchor today’s AI ecosystem, complicating past comparisons.
- As launch costs fall, Blue Origin, Bezos's space company, aims to enable a permanent human and industrial presence off Earth through launch-cost reductions and technological advances.
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Jeff Bezos Has a Plan to Curb AI’s Carbon Footprint: Send Data Centers to Space
Jeff Bezos believes that for artificial intelligence to keep expanding, data centers will eventually need to move off the Earth and into space. Speaking at the Italian Tech Week in Turin last week, the Amazon and Blue Origin founder said that the best way to reduce the environmental impact of these facilities was to move them off-planet. Bezos’ concern is shared by many in the sciences and wider environmental movement. As artificial intelligence…
Is AI In A Bubble? Does It Matter? – RetailWit
CNBC had a story the other day about how Amazon founder and chairman Jeff Bezos, appearing onstage at Italian Tech Week in Turin, Italy, said that “artificial intelligence is currently in an ‘industrial bubble’ but the technology is ‘real’ and will bring big benefits to society.” What does that mean exactly? According to the story, “The term bubble usually refers to a period of inflated stock prices or valuations of companies that have disconnec…
Bezos Predicts ‘Gigawatt Data Centers in Space’ as the Next Big Leap
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2025 — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says the next major evolution in data infrastructure could take place off the planet.Bezos, speaking at Italian Tech Week in Turin, predicted that “giant gigawatt data centers in space” could happen within the next 20 years.“One of the things that’s going to happen next is we’re going to start building these giant gigawatt data centers in space,” Bezos said. “These giant training clusters will…
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