The AI Cloud Is Leaving Earth
Jeff Bezos just described the next frontier of AI infrastructure, and it's space
Assuming the 3I/ATLAS comet / UFO doesn’t change our society entirely in the next two months, Jeff Bezos isn’t talking about space tourism anymore; he’s talking about taking the internet off the planet.
In a recent interview, Bezos said that we’ll start building gigawatt-scale data centers in space within the next ten to twenty years. He said this quietly, almost like it was inevitable.
In orbit, solar power runs 24 hours a day. There are no clouds, storms, or nights. Cooling is free. Once that balance tips, computing in space could become cheaper than computing on Earth.
That one shift would change the economics of AI entirely.
Why this matters for AI
AI doesn’t stop because of ambition. It stops because of energy.
Training large models takes as much power as small nations. On Earth, that scale eventually hits a wall. In space, the wall disappears.
This is where Bezos’ prediction intersects with what we think about daily at FOMO.ai. The future of intelligence isn’t just about smarter models; it’s about where and how they’re powered.
If energy becomes limitless, creativity follows. When computing moves off-planet, it unlocks a kind of acceleration we haven’t seen since the early Internet.
The deeper play
Bezos has always described Earth as a “garden” planet — somewhere to preserve while industry expands elsewhere.
It’s not about Mars. It’s about moving the heavy work away from home.
Satellites gave us global communication. Then came cloud storage and global compute.
The next layer might be orbital AI clusters — machines learning above the atmosphere, powering everything from simulation to synthetic biology.
It sounds distant, but so did cloud computing once.
What this means for builders
I believe every brand is now in the intelligence business.
As the infrastructure shifts, so does the opportunity. If data centers leave Earth, the brands that understand how to train, apply, and deploy within that new ecosystem will lead the market.
Bezos points to a future where AI’s limits aren’t technical anymore — they’re imaginative. And that’s exactly where we like to work.