Lonestar Data Holdings, a start-up based in St. Petersburg, USA, has announced plans to build a data center on the moon by 2026. The company believes that storing critical data on the moon is safer than on Earth. Lonestar has already tested its Lonestar Data Center on the International Space Station (ISS) in December 2022. The company has received $5 million from several investors, including Scout Ventures, Seldor Capital, 2 Future Holding, The Veteran Fund, Irongate Capital, Atypical Ventures, and KittyHawk, for this ambitious project. Chris Stott, the founder of Lonestar, believes that the moon is the ideal place to store data as it is more secure than on Earth.
The mini-center of Lonestar will be sent to the moon with the Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission this year. The computer weighs about one kilogram and can store 16 terabytes of data. The small data center will receive its energy from the moon lander and will return to Earth after a test period of 11 to 14 days. Lonestar aims to build a data center on the moon that can operate autonomously and generate its own energy by 2026. The company plans to store critical data from businesses in their data centers on the moon in the future.
According to Chris Stott, data is the most important currency created by humanity, and it is too important to store it in the increasingly fragile biosphere of Earth. The moon is the ideal place to store our future safely. Additionally, data required for moon missions or obtained during moon missions could be stored on the moon. However, Lonestar has not disclosed how the radioactive radiation and the extremely hot and cold environment on the moon will affect data security.
