Lonestar and Phison's Data Center Infrastructure Is Headed to the Moon
The companies are sending the infrastructure needed to build out a data center with the goal of growing its capacity to a petabyte in the future. Lonestar, a data storage and resilience company, has partnered with Phison, a semiconductor and storage company, to launch a data center on a SpaceX rocket that's headed to the moon. The partnership marks the beginning of a lunar data center that the companies plan to expand in the future.
- As space-based data centers become more prevalent, it raises questions about the long-term sustainability and environmental impact of this emerging technology.
- Will the advantages offered by space-based storage solutions, such as nearly infinite capacity and solar energy, be enough to justify the significant investment required for their development and deployment?