- He says that AI impacts being deep and lasting, despite bubble risks.
- The calls for bubble effects are distinguished from long -term benefits.
- Consider challenges, including maintenance, cost, rocket launch failures.
The Founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, predicted on Friday that Gigawatt data centers will be built in space within the next 10 to 20 years and that the solar energy continuously would make them overcome them based on the earth.
Speaking at the Week of Italian technology in Turin, Bezos also compared the increase in artificial intelligence with the Internet boom in the early 2000s, urging optimism despite the risk of speculative bubbles.
The concept of orbital data centers has gained traction among technological giants, since those on Earth have generated the demand for electricity and water to cool their servers.
“These giant training groups, those will be better built in space, because we have solar energy there, 24/7. There are no clouds or rain, or climate,” Bezos said in a public conversation with Ferrari Race.MI and Stellantis Stlam.MI, John Elkann.
“We can exceed the cost of land data centers in space in the next two decades.”
Bezos said that change to space infrastructure is part of a broader tendency to use space to improve life on earth.
“It has already happened with climate and communication satellites,” he said. “The next step is the data centers, then other types of manufacturing.”
The accommodation of the data centers in the space presents their own challenges, including the difficulty of maintaining the maintenance and realization of updates, as well as the cost of launching rockets, together with the risk that the launches may fail.
Amazon’s executive president said the Ola of AI shares features with the era of the Puntocom, when the mass exaggeration was followed by an accident.
“We should be extremely optimistic that the social and beneficial consequences of AI, as we did with Internet 25 years ago, are really and there to stay,” he said.
“It is important to decort the potential bubbles and their explosive consequences that may or may not happen from real reality,” said Bezos, added that the benefits of AI “were expected to be broadly spread and that it will go everywhere.”
