2026년 2월 23일 · Unknown · financial · 출처 Seeking Alpha
OpenAI CEO (OPENAI [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/OPENAI]) Sam Altman has ridiculed the idea of setting up data centers in space for now, even as SpaceX (SPACE [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/SPACE]) CEO Elon Musk prioritizes this endeavor.
"I honestly think the idea with the current landscape of putting data centers in space is ridiculous," Altman said in a recent interview with _Indian Express_. "It will make sense someday."
He pointed to launch costs and how difficult it would be to fix a broken GPU in space. "We are not there yet. There will come a time. Orbital data centers are not something that's going to matter at scale this decade."
When announcing the SpaceX (SPACE [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/SPACE])-xAI (X.AI [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/X.AI]) merger earlier this month, Musk said global electricity demand for AI can't be met with terrestrial solutions without imposing hardship on the environment.
"In the long term, space-based AI is obviously the only way to scale," he said. "My estimate is that within 2 to 3 years, the lowest cost way to generate AI compute will be in space."
Other tech leaders also have their eye on space data centers. Alphabet (GOOG [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/GOOG]) (GOOGL [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/GOOGL]) CEO Sundar Pichai said the company plans to launch two prototype satellites to test its hardware for such data centers in 2027.
Amazon's (AMZN [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/AMZN]) Jeff Bezos previously forecast that space data centers will likely be built within the next 10-20 years, while Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman said the endeavor is "just not economical" currently.
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