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Two billionaire owners of a space company,
Jeff Bezos
and
Elon Musk
, secretly ambitious to build
data center
artificial intelligence (AI) in space.
Jeff Bezos’ space company, Blue Origin, is reportedly developing technology to build an AI data center in space.This development effort is said to have been ongoing for more than a year.
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According to reports
The Wall Street Journal
on Wednesday (10/12), citing internal sources familiar with the project, this plan marks Blue Origin’s new step in utilizing space as an alternative environment for high-power computing.
In October, Bezos predicted that gigawatt-scale data centers will be built in space in the next 10 to 20 years. He added that, thanks to the continued availability of solar energy, such data centers will eventually outperform Earth-based data centers.
“We will be able to beat the cost of ground data centers in space in the next two decades,” Bezos said at the time.
“This giant training cluster, it would be better to be built in space, because there we have solar power 24/7. There are no clouds, no rain, and no weather,” he continued.
Meanwhile SpaceX, a company owned by Elon Musk, plans to use an upgraded version of its Starlink satellite to accommodate artificial intelligence computing payloads.
Launch
New York Post
, the technology is being proposed as part of a stock offering that could value the company at US$800 billion (Rp. 13,336 trillion), according to people involved in the talks quoted in the report.
Last week, Musk denied reports that SpaceX was raising funds with a valuation of IDR 13,336 trillion, calling it inaccurate information.
Neither SpaceX nor Blue Origin immediately responded to requests for comment.
The concept of orbital data centers has gained attention from tech giants, as demand for electricity and water to cool servers on Earth increases.
Google was also previously reported to be planning to build a space data center in early 2027.
The technology giant from California, United States, hopes to utilize solar power and reduce the cost of launching rockets.The first test equipment is launched into orbit in the near future.
Google scientists and engineers think that about 80 solar-powered satellites could be arranged in orbit about 400 miles above the Earth’s surface and equipped with high-powered processors to meet the growing demand for artificial intelligence.
Reporting from
The Guardian
, research released by Google on Tuesday (4/11), the cost of launching into space will decrease rapidly, so that by the mid-2030s the operational costs of space-based data centers will be comparable to those on Earth.
To cool today’s data centers, the use of satellites can minimize the use of land and water resources.
The data center will be equipped with solar panels that can produce energy eight times more efficiently than solar panels once in orbit than solar panels on Earth.However, launching one rocket can produce carbon dioxide emissions of up to hundreds of tons.
Astronomers may oppose this because the increasing number of satellites in low orbit could interfere with their observations of the universe.
In the Suncatcher project, orbiting data centers will send results back via optical links that typically use light or laser beams to transmit information.
Big tech companies chasing AI’s rapid advances are expected to buy land-based data centers everywhere like Lincolnshire to Brazil, and India to Texas.This spending has raised concerns about the impact of carbon emissions if clean energy is not found to power the project.
“In the future, space may be the best place to develop AI computers,” Google said in its research.
(wpj/dmi)
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