Data centers in space are 10 to 20 years away, Amazon's cloud chief says. Musk alone can't fix it.
AWS CEO Matt German says orbiting data centers are "very unlikely to be economically feasible or practical in the next decade or two. He said this on Alex Heath's Sources podcast, published on November 10.
When Heath said Elon Musk was trying to fix rocket launches, German said one man couldn't, pointing to his numbers:
"We generally don't do one launch a day today. ".
"We land in a data center today, one GPU every 14 seconds. ".
A rack of GPUs might weigh a ton, he adds, and it's hard to get rid of heat in space because there's no air. Of the three places people fall, space, oceans and deserts, he calls deserts by far the most likely.
Even at that rate, he expects AWS to be underpowered for the next two years.