TURIN (Reuters) -Amazon founder and executive chair Jeff Bezos said on Friday gigawatt-scale data centres will be built in space within the next 10 to 20 years, predicting they would eventually outperform Earth-based ones thanks to the abundance of uninterrupted solar energy.

The number of these enormous centres, which store computing infrastructure, is growing exponentially as the world increasingly uses artificial intelligence and cloud computing, driving a surge in demand for electricity and water to cool their servers.

“One of the things that’s going to happen in the next – it’s hard to know exactly when, it’s 10 plus years, and I bet it’s not more than 20 years – we’re going to start building these giant gigawatt data centres in space,” Bezos said during a fireside chat with Ferrari

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