A startup wants to bring data centers to the moon

A startup wants to bring data centers to the moon

Data centers are becoming more powerful, thirsty for energy and difficult to cool due to their enormous power. Not to mention that their very existence can be undermined by catastrophic events of a natural or military nature.



Photo Credit: Pixabay Apparently, as reported by DataCenterKnowledge, someone has thought about how to solve these problems in a radical way. In fact, the startup Lonestar Data Holding intends to establish a network of data centers even on the Moon and has already set to work by contacting Intuitive Machines for the first two missions on the lunar surface and for the construction of the first data center on the single satellite. nature of the Earth.


Data is the largest coin created by the human race. We depend on them for almost everything we do and it is too important for us as a species to keep them in the increasingly fragile Earth's biosphere. The largest satellite on Earth, our Moon, is the ideal place to safely preserve our future.

As for actual computing, Lonestar intends to rely on Skycorp servers based on the open source architecture RISC-V. Dennis Wingo, CEO and founder of Skycorp said, in this regard:

Skycorp is pleased to be able to deliver its advanced RISC-V multi-core server architecture in space to the Lonestar team. Our system is currently operating as the world's first web server on the International Space Station and we look forward to supporting Lonestar in their innovative lunar application next year.



Photo Credit: Unsplash.com