- Said the impact of AI to be deep and lasting, despite the risks of bubble.
- Calls to distinguish the effects of bubbles from long -term advantages.
- Cites the challenges, in particular the maintenance, the cost, the failures to launch rockets.
The founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, predicted on Friday that data centers at Gigawatt scale will be built in space in the next 10 to 20 years and that the solar energy available continuously would end them by surpass those according to the earth.
Speaking during Italian technology week in Turin, Bezos also compared the sharp increase in artificial intelligence to the Internet boom in the early 2000s, urging optimism despite the risk of speculative bubbles.
The concept of orbital data centers has gained ground among the technology giants, as those on earth increased demand for electricity and water to cool their servers.
“These giant training bunches, these will be better built in space, because we have solar energy there, 24/7. There is no clouds and no rain, no time,” said Bezos in a public conversation with Ferrari Race.Mi and Stellantis Stlam.m, President John Elkann.
“We will be able to beat the cost of land data centers in space in the next two decades.”
Bezos said that the transition to space infrastructure is part of a broader trend in the use of space to improve life on earth.
“It has already happened with meteorological and communication satellites,” he said. “The next step is the data centers, then other types of manufacturing.”
The accommodation of data centers in the space presents its own challenges, including the difficulty of maintenance and to perform upgrades, as well as the cost of launching rockets, as well as the risk that the launches can fail.
Amazon’s executive president said the Wave Wave sharing lines with the Dot-Com era, when a massive beateering was followed by an accident.
“We must be extremely optimistic that the societal and beneficial consequences of AI, as we had with the Internet 25 years ago, are for real and there to stay,” he said.
“It is important to decorate the potential bubbles and their exploded consequences which could or not occur from real reality,” said Bezos, adding that the advantages of AI should “be widely disseminated and this will go everywhere”.
