Is the era of data centers on Earth coming to an end? Real financial sinkholes and disasters for the environment because they consume so much energy, some companies are looking for ways to reduce the impact of this essential equipment in our current society. And a company would have a particular solution: place a data center… on the Moon.
For the trip, the American company approached SpaceX to benefit from a flight aboard a rocket Falcon 9 for a departure towards the end of February 2025. On site, the first of the company's data centers which will leave fully assembled will be installed on the Moon thanks to the lunar lander Athena from the company based in Houston (Texas), Intuitive Machines.
Finally, in terms of its on-site management, the data center called Freedomwill be powered by solar panels. On site, the data center Lonestar Data Holdings will serve, as indicated on their site, “data storage and edge processing [ndr, les technologies liées au développement de l’IA]”
Data centers in space, a bad idea?
If the idea of Lonestar Data Holdings installing data centers on the Moon has much to be interesting and promises a lesser impact on the Earth's environment, but significant inconveniences and risks remain.
Indeed, although the idea may have attracted the State of Florida, the government of the Isle of Man or even the group imagine Dragonswe must not forget that investment can be double-edged.
There are significant costs for maintaining the devices, since you have to go to the Moon, this difficulty also gives rise to the meager possibility of being able to make updates quickly and easily.
Finally, and this is surely the biggest risk, a rocket can explode and its contents or its inhabitants with it. No organization or business is immune from this. We saw this recently with a failed test of Starship of SpaceX or several years ago when the world watched with fear the drama of the shuttle Challenger.
Such an event would only increase the already particularly significant costs of such a mission, but would also delay future maintenance of these data centers or their installation.
But as they say, he who tries nothing, achieves nothing.
Source : Reuters
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