🛰 Data centers in space are 10 to 20 years away, Amazon's cloud chief says. Musk alone can't fix that

AWS CEO Matt Garman says data centers in orbit are "highly unlikely to be economically feasible or practical in the next decade or two." He said it on Alex Heath's Sources podcast, published November 10.

When Heath said Elon Musk is trying to fix rocket launches, Garman said one person can't, and pointed to his own numbers:

"We as a world don't do one launch a day today."
"We're landing in a data center today, one GPU every 14 seconds."

A rack of GPUs might weigh a ton, he adds, and gettin