The concept of orbital data centres has gained traction among tech giants as those on Earth have driven up demand for electricity and water to cool their servers. There are no clouds and no rain, no weather," Bezos said in a public conversation with Ferrari (RACE.MI) and Stellantis (STLAM.MI) Chairman John Elkann. "We will be able to beat the cost of terrestrial data centres in space in the next couple of decades." "The next step is data centres, then other kinds of manufacturing." Hosting data centres in space has its own challenges, including the difficulty of maintenance and carrying out upgrades and the cost of launching rockets, as well as the risk the launches may fail.