Illustration of robots assembling solar farms and data centers in outer space. Image generated by AI.
By Sebastian Moss,
Published by Data Center Dynamics, 3 October 2025
Joining a growing list of space compute-focused billionaires
Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos said that he believes gigawatt-scale data centers will be deployed in space in 10+ years.
Speaking at the Italian Tech Week in Turin, Bezos admitted the shift was still a long way away, but said that it would “beat the cost of terrestrial data centers in the next couple of decades.”
Bezos, the world’s third richest man, said: “One of the things that’s going to happen in the next – it’s hard to know exactly when, it’s 10+ years, and I bet it’s not more than 20 years – we’re going to start building these giant gigawatt data centers in space.
“These giant training clusters, those will be better built in space, because we have solar power there, 24/7. There are no clouds and no rain, no weather.”
Bezos was CEO of Amazon from 1994 until 2021, with the online retailer also the world’s largest cloud provider. He remains executive chairman and a major shareholder.
He is also the owner of space business Blue Origin, which is building its own rockets to compete with SpaceX.
The company is developing ‘Blue Ring,’ a spacecraft focused on in-space logistics and delivery. It is expected to feature radiation-tolerant chips for a space-based cloud, focused on servicing other satellites.
Bezos is not alone in seeing space as the next frontier for data centers. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt this year said that he acquired rocket company Relativity Space to put data centers in orbit, while OpenAI’s Sam Altman spoke about the need for compute in space on a podcast with comedian Theo Von.
A number of companies plan to deploy data centers in space, including Axiom Space, Starcloud (previously Lumen Orbit), NTT, Ramon.Space, and Sophia Space, to name but a few.
Earlier this year, startup Lonestar successfully put a small data center on the Moon, carrying an article from DCD. Read it here.
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