Amazon's AWS CEO Calls Orbital Data Centers 'Pretty Far' From Reality

Amazon AWS CEO Matt Garman pushes back against Elon Musk’s space data centers plan

Amazon has more than 900 data centers spread across the planet. And if you ask Matt Garman, the CEO of Amazon Web Services, that is exactly where they’ll stay for the foreseeable future.  Speaking at a tech conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Garman threw some cold water on the notion of space-based data centers, which have been touted by Elon Musk and others as the future of AI.  While putting AI data centers in space has obvious benefits, …

Amazon's AWS CEO calls orbital data centers 'pretty far' from reality

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 3 : Amazon's top cloud computing executive said space-based data centers are "pretty far" from being a reality, even as a number of startups and the company's own founder, Jeff Bezos, have pursued the idea.The explosive growth of artificial intelligence requires vast amounts of computing po

AWS CEO Garman said space data centers likely to take longer

AWS CEO Garman said space data centers likely to take longer Larry Dignan Tue, 3 Feb 2026 - 14:14 Larry Dignan Editor in Chief of Constellation Insights Constellation Research About Larry Dignan: Dignan was most recently Celonis Media’s Editor-in-Chief, where he sat at the intersection of media and marketing. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of ZDNet and has covered the technology industry and transformation trends for more than two decades, pu…

From Earth to Orbit: Elon Musk’s Space Data Center Vision Meets Michigan’s Ground-Level Reality

ANN ARBOR – When Elon Musk talks about moving data centers into space, it can sound like science fiction. But following SpaceX’s acquisition of AI startup xAI, the idea is now part of a serious infrastructure conversation — driven by the exploding energy demands of artificial intelligence. Musk’s concept is bold: shift future AI compute away from Earth-bound data centers that consume massive amounts of electricity, water, and land — the same iss…