Amazon founder and executive chair Jeff Bezos says that, within two decades, gigawatt-scale datacenters powered by a continuous stream of photons from the sun will fill Earth's orbit.

Bezos' prediction might sound like he's auditioning for the role of Hugo Drax in the inevitable Moonraker reboot, but the billionaire businessman really believes that spaceborne datacenters are going to be a thing and may eventually outperform their terrestrial counterparts.

"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 datacenters in space," he said during a fireside chat with Ferrari and Stellantis chair John Elkann, at Italian Tech Week.

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