Amazon founder Jeff Bezos revealed on Thursday that he is looking to build data centers in space and move polluting industries off Earth with his aerospace company Blue Origin, which will launch a rocket this Sunday on a NASA mission. "We can start building factories in space, we can start building data centers in space," Bezos said at the America Business Forum (ABF) in Miami. He argued that in space, there is eight times more solar energy per unit area, which "would allow for very efficient data centers in space." The entrepreneur also recalled that his company's rocket will propel two spacecraft to Mars' orbit this Sunday as part of NASA's ESCAPADE mission to study the structure of the Martian magnetic field and its interaction with space weather. In the long run, Bezos argued, "we will get materials not even from Earth, but from the Moon, objects and asteroids. There is no plan B."
