One executive skeptical of the idea of data centers in space is AWS’s own CEO, Matt Garman. “There are not enough rockets to launch a million satellites yet, so we’re, like, pretty far from that. If you think about the cost of getting a payload in space today, it’s massive,” Garman told attendees at the Cisco AI summit, according to a Reuters report.
Garman is just one of many critics of the notion that data centers can be a viable alternative. Issues such as collisions with space debris, the difficulty of supplying water as a coolant, the impossibility of fixing hardware issues and latency have all been highlighted as potential problems.
