Amazon's cloud computing executive stated that, despite many startups and company founder Jeff Bezos pursuing the idea of space-based data centers, they remain "quite distant" from reality. The explosive growth of artificial intelligence demands massive computational power and cooling systems, which is straining the capacity of land-based data centers. This is prompting cloud computing companies to consider alternatives, such as sending equipment to space where terrestrial issues are fewer. However, Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman, speaking at the Cisco AI Summit in San Francisco, indicated that the difficulty of launching servers, satellites, and other equipment into orbit makes the idea extremely challenging to realize. "There aren't enough rockets right now to launch a million satellites, so we are still quite far from that goal," he said when asked about the concept. "If you think about the current cost of sending payloads into space, it is enormous." "It's simply not economical," he remarked.
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