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AWS first-quarter revenue up 28 percent, fastest growth in over three years

Amazon posted first-quarter revenue of $181.5 billion, up 17 percent from a year earlier, and net profit of $30.3 billion, up 77 percent, topping market expectations, the Wall Street Journal reported. AWS revenue rose 28 percent to $37.59 billion, making up about 21 percent of total revenue. Amazon forecast second-quarter revenue of $194 billion to $199 billion and operating profit of $20 billion to $24 billion.

AI & Enterprise

Meta to tap space solar power to secure round-the-clock electricity for data centres

Meta will invest in space-based solar power transmission technology to secure night-time electricity for its data centres. It signed a power capacity reservation agreement of up to 1 gigawatt with startup Overview Energy, its first major demand contract. Meta data centres used more than 18,000 gigawatt hours of electricity in 2024. Overview Energy plans to collect solar energy via satellites and send it as near-infrared beams to ground solar plants.

Industry

Will the 2030s bring a lunar colony era? Radiation and low gravity are key variables

Private space companies are increasingly setting lunar habitation as a realistic goal, but human and environmental risks that could block long-term stays are also coming into focus. A Voyager Technologies executive expects people to reach the moon in the late 2020s and for early 2030s living and work to become possible with life-support bases. Investment in low Earth orbit is rising and space data centres are being discussed, while radiation and low gravity are highlighted as key threats requiring exercise, nutrition and shielding.