Former Amazon CEO and billionaire Jeff Bezos has revealed that he plans to build AI data centers in orbit.
During an appearance at the Italian Tech Week in Turin, Bezos explained that these giant gigawatt-scale data centers will be built in space over the next few decades so they can more effectively harness the power of solar energy.
“These giant training clusters, those will be better built in space, because we have solar power there, 24/7,” Bezos said in a conversation with Ferrari and Stellantis Chairman John Elkann.
“There are no clouds and no rain, no weather.”
“We will be able to beat the cost of terrestrial data centers in space in the next couple of decades.”
“It already has happened with weather satellites. It has already happened with communication satellites.
“The next step is going to be data centers and then other kinds of manufacturing,” he added.
Bezos also warned that AI risks becomign a bubble like the dot com bust of the 2000’s.
“We should be extremely optimistic that the societal and beneficial consequences of AI, like we had with internet 25 years ago, are for real and there to stay,” he said.
“It is important to decorrelate the potential bubbles and their bursting consequences that might or might not happen from the actual reality,” he continued.
Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos:
Within 10-20 years, the giant, gigawatt-scale data centers for AI training clusters will be built in space
This would leverage 24/7 solar power and make space a key part of Earth’s industrial and technological infrastructure pic.twitter.com/6U052b4BeS
— Haider. (@slow_developer) October 4, 2025
Artificial intelligence requires massive amounts of energy to run and train its large models.
Companies like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft are building massive data centers filled with thousands of powerful computer chips, which also need heavy cooling systems to stop them from overheating.
As AI continues to grow, these data centers are using more and more electricity around the world.
Bezos’s space company, Blue Origin, has long discussed the prospect of moving parts of heavy industry into space to protect Earth’s environment.
What a view. From our new free flying camera — deployed on yesterday’s New Shepard mission. (The “bubble” is the seam between two 180 degree lenses.) pic.twitter.com/X6nX5vz2YT
— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) September 20, 2025
