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Amazon’s Computing Boss Says Space Data Centers Won’t Be “Feasible Or Practical” For A Decade Even As Musk Believes In 1,300W/m² Heat Dissipation For AI Satellites

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Even though Elon Musk and SpaceX aim to target space-based AI compute aggressively, the CEO of Amazon’s AWS cloud computing business, Matt Garman, believes that space data centers are unlikely to be feasible in the next decade. The executive discussed the space data centers during the Sources podcast, where he shared that cooling and serviceability are among the factors that make it difficult for space data centers to be feasible. Few Annual Launches & Cooling Among Factors That Make AWS CEO Skeptical About Space Data Centers Starting out by discussing whether the plan to build out compute infrastructure in space […]

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