First-ever data center on the Moon set to launch next month
Lonestar Data Holdings, a Florida-based startup, is set to launch the first Moon-based data center in February. Dubbed the 'Freedom Data Center', the information hub will piggyback on an upcoming lunar lander mission by Intuitive Machines aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Storing data on the Moon offers unique benefits - it provides unmatched physical security and protection and is much more environmentally friendly. The company still needs to overcome enormous technical challenges as deploying a data center on the lunar surface is complex. Lonestar will maintain a ground-based backup at a Flexential facility in Tampa.
This is weird as the moon is under constant bombardment from space. I hope they have some really good protective measures.
https://www.livescience.com/how-many-moon-meteorites#:~:text=That%20adds%20up%20to%20roughly,%2C%20too%2C%20but%20less%20often.
True.... but then again, China is planning on building a base there in the next decade or so so perhaps the meteorite threat has already been solved. I don't know how though
Back in the day when they landed on the moon a 1mm space rock could penetrate a space suit. Kinda scary. Yet chance of a man in a space suit being hit are super low.
Probably they have plans for the bigger rocks but there is a lot of small rocks bombing the surface.
We will see how it works out.
I guess so
This one could be nothing but a publicity stunt too... we will see