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Jeff Bezos Has a Plan to Curb AI's Carbon Footprint: Send Data Centers to Space

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Speaking at the Italian Tech Week in Turin, the Blue Origin founder predicted that humans will start building “giant gigawatt data centers” in space within the next two decades.
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 grows, scientists are worried Earth’s resources might not be able to keep up. In turn, Bezos predicted that humans will start building gigawatt-scale orbital data centers within the next 10 to 20 years.
“Space will end up being one of the places that keeps making Earth better,” he said.
“It already has happened with weather satellites. It’s already happened with communication satellites. The next step is going to be data centers and other kinds of manufacturing.”Data centers are straining Earth’s resources
As tech giants pour billions into AI, data center construction is skyrocketing. These facilities house the computing infrastructure needed to train and deploy AI models, and require huge amounts of energy and water to operate.

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