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Jeff Bezos has been grabbing headlines all week, with his net worth taking a dramatic leap—by some counts up between 12 and 24 billion dollars—after Amazon’s blockbuster third quarter results sent the company’s stock to record highs, reports from Forbes and the Bloomberg Billionaire Index confirm. That surge positions Bezos at $265 billion, making him the world’s third richest person. The jump is credited to Amazon’s impressive sales figures and strong guidance for the holiday quarter, with analysts spotlighting Amazon’s continuing dominance in both e-commerce and the cloud.
Yet Bezos’s ambitions right now reach much further than Wall Street. At Italian Tech Week in Turin, he unveiled a plan that is already sparking debate across the technology and environmental sectors: his vision to relocate the world’s most power-hungry artificial intelligence data centers into space. The idea, widely covered by The New York Post and The Economic Times, aims to harness space’s endless solar energy and natural cooling to solve the spiraling energy and pollution issues plaguing Earth’s data infrastructure. Bezos declared orbital data centers could match or beat Earth-based costs within a decade or two. This marks a key shift—not just for AI infrastructure but for the future of clean energy and planetary sustainability.
While in Turin, Bezos doubled down on his forecast that millions of people could be living in space by 2045. He told Italian Tech Week attendees he sees humanity heading for “civilizational abundance,” arguing that AI and technological advances will spark new prosperity, not decline. He emphasized space as the ultimate fix—envisioning O’Neill-style orbital habitats, vast industrial infrastructure in orbit, and heavy industry moved off Earth, all to preserve our planet for future generations. Blue Origin, his space company, continues to push for this vision, with last week’s successful static fire of the massive New Glenn rocket in Florida making waves. The upcoming November NASA mission to Mars with Blue Origin’s vehicle is another major milestone, positioning Bezos as a key player in the new commercial space race, according to coverage by India Today.
Beyond boardrooms and launch pads, Bezos and his wife Lauren Sánchez have been an ubiquitous tabloid fixture. Their coordinated looks at Paris Fashion Week and glamorous presence on the global social circuit have been widely chronicled by outlets like People and AOL, revealing a couple confidently sharing the limelight as well as their philanthropic and business interests.
Social media buzzed this week with resurgent clips of Bezos sharing leadership advice; a widely shared old interview features him urging bosses to always speak last in meetings to foster truth-telling—a philosophy Business Insider and The Financial Express are calling a masterclass in modern management. Vintage quotes circulating from Fortune remind us that, for Bezos, stress is a warning sign to stop procrastinating and act—advice trending again in startup communities.
While rumors always swirl, no major unconfirmed reports about Bezos surfaced this week. In sum, from Wall Street to the runway, from data centers to Mars, Jeff Bezos is executing the kind of big, audacious moves that could reset not just his biographical arc, but perhaps the contours of tech, space, and planetary stewardship for decades to come.
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