DATA STORAGE AND RESILIENCE COMPANY LONESTAR and semiconductor and storage company Phison A data center infrastructure was launched on a Spacex rocket on Wednesday heading to the moon.
Companies send Pascari storage of Phison – Solid State Drives (SSDS) built for data centers – packed with Lonestar's data data at a Spacex Falcon 9 rocket set to reach March 4. It marked the beginning of a lunar data center, the first, the companies planned storage petabyte.
Chris Stott, the founder, chair, and CEO of Lonestar, told Techcrunch that the idea of developing a data center came from 2018-years before the current AI-driven advances in data center demand. He said customers are looking for ways to store their data on the ground to become immune from things like climate disasters and hacking.
“The most important item of humanity, outside of us, is data,” Stott said. “They see data as a new oil. I will say it's more important than that.”
Stott said working with Phison to produce a Space Data Center is a natural choice. Phison already provides storage solutions for space missions by the perseverance of NASA in Mars. The company also offers a design service called Think Plus, which will develop custom storage solutions for unique projects.
“We are excited when there is a call from Chris,” Michael Wu, the general manager and president of Phison, told Techcrunch. “We got a common product and was able to customize whatever they needed for these products and we launched it. So this is a Kapana -exciting journey.”
Lonestar cooperated with Phison in 2021, and since then, they have developed SSD storage units designed for space. Stott added that companies spent many years on product test before their first launch because Tech needs to be a solid rock – it's not easy to fix with an issue.
“[This is] Why are SSDs so important, ”Stott said. “There are no moving parts. It is noteworthy technology that allows us to do what we do for these governments and hopefully almost every government in the world as we go and almost every company and corporation.”
Stott said the tech has been ready since 2023 and the company has successfully conducted a test launch in early 2024.
Wednesday's launch includes different types of customer data, from many governments interested in disaster recovery to a space agency that tests a large language model. Although the band thinks the Dragons participates, sends a music video for one of their songs from the Starfield Space Game soundtrack.
Lonestar is not the only company looking to bring data centers to space. Another contender, Lumen Orbit, appeared from Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch. Startup gets one of Buzziest seed rounds From the cohort YC, which increases more than $ 21 million and rebranding as Starcloud.
As AI is required to be driven for speedy hardware, we will likely see many companies to pursue space-based storage solutions, offering almost endless storage and solar storage capacity, benefits that cannot match ground data centers.
For Lonestar, if all is well, the company plans to cooperate with the sidus space manufacturer Sidus Space to produce six spacecraft of data storage that the company expects to launch between 2027 and 2030.
“It's fun to see the level of professionalism, it's huge,” Stott said. “It wasn't 60 years ago in the Apollo program. Apollo flight computer, they have 2 kilobytes of RAM and they have 36 kilobytes of storage. We are here on this mission, flying 1 Gigabyte of RAM and 8 storage terabytes with Phison Pascari. It's huge.”
