Ammon News - People will be living and working on the moon within the next decade, according to the boss of space tech company Voyager Technologies.

“We’ll have humans on the moon by the end of the 2020s, and we’ll have some lunar base — it’ll probably be an inflatable habitat with some life support,” said the firm’s chairman and CEO Dylan Taylor, speaking on a panel at CNBC’s CONVERGE LIVE in Singapore on Thursday.

“Deeper into the 2030s, 2032, 2033, you’ll be able to sit on your porch in upstate New York and look at the moon, and there’ll be lights on the moon, because there’ll be people living and working on the moon,” Taylor said.

“Space has never been hotter,” Taylor said on the sidelines of CONVERGE LIVE, describing the sector as “just getting started,” in light of an anticipated “windfall” of funding from the U.S. government.

Taylor said he expects data centers to be operational in space in five years, though he noted the technical challenges of radiating heat away from them, while Gregory Smirin, president of space systems firm Muon Space, said some data center capabilities already exist in space. “We’re already seeing the kind of inference stage, where we’re seeing our systems that are up there today doing the AI analytics,” said Smirin during a panel at CNBC’s CONVERGE LIVE.