Lonestar Startup Will Launch First Data Center On The Moon
JAKARTA Lonestar Data Holdings, a space-based technology company, reinforces its plans to put the first physical data center on the Moon. This innovation has made a lot of progress.
Lonestar CEO Chris Stott said that they had finished assembling the data center. This technology will be integrated into the Intuitive Machine's Athens lander ride. Meanwhile, for the launcher, they will use SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.
The plan is for the launch of the Lonestar data center to be carried out in late February after the integration into the Athens rides is complete. As long as this innovative program goes on, Stott says that its startup company will ensure its mission runs smoothly.
"Ide uses the largest satellite on earth as an anchor point, far enough so we can maintain (communication) security," Stott told Reuters.
The concept of this data center is a little different. Although Lonestar wants to meet computing needs for Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, the focus of this data center is disaster recovery and storage. That way, this data center will not depend on latency.
The launch of cheaper rockets, abundant solar energy, and cost-effective cooling systems have sparked a race between startups to turn space into large data centers, which are able to meet the growing computing needs of technology including AI.
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Currently, data center development is increasingly widespread so that the carbon emission reduction target can be disrupted. The reason is, the company needs more energy to maintain its operations so that Lonestar creates data center innovations on the Moon.
However, the construction of data center operations in space is not easy. Lonestar needs to prepare complex maintenance, improve its technology in a limited scope, and spend more on its launch.
It should also be remembered that launches into space have many risks. If the launch fails, the data center will not be able to operate and the funds spent will be in vain. Although the risks are quite large, the State of Florida, the Man Island government, the company AI Valkyrie, and the band Imagine Dragons are already listed as customers of the data center.