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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.

This marks the beginning of a lunar data center, the first ever, that the companies plan to expand in the future until it holds a petabyte of storage. Stott added that the companies spent years testing the product before their first launch because the tech has to be rock solid — it can’t easily be fixed if an issue arises. Wednesday’s launch included various types of customer data, ranging from multiple governments interested in disaster recovery to a space agency testing a large language model.

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