Amazon AWS CEO Matt Garman pushes back against Elon Musk’s space data centers plan

Amazon has more than 900 data centers spread across the planet. And if you ask Matt Garman, the CEO of Amazon Web Services, that is exactly where they’ll stay for the foreseeable future. 

Speaking at a tech conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Garman threw some cold water on the notion of space-based data centers, which have been touted by Elon Musk and others as the future of AI. 

While putting AI data centers in space has obvious benefits, including the ability to harness...