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Offers from Lunar Datacenter Coming Later This Year. Seriously.

raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

https://gizmodo.com/startup-moves-closer-building-data-centers-moon-1850192177?utm_source=lowendtalk.com

"The Florida-based company raised $5 million in seed funding to establish lunar data centers, Lonestar announced in a press release on Monday. Lonestar wants to build a series of data centers on the Moon and establish a viable platform for data storage and edge processing (i.e. the practice of processing data near the source, as a means to reduce latency and improve bandwidth) on the lunar surface.

"The lunar data centers will initially be geared towards remote data storage and disaster recovery, allowing companies to back up their data and store it on the Moon. In addition, the data centers could assist with both commercial and private ventures to the lunar environment.

The miniature data center weighs about 2 pounds (1 kilogram) and has a capacity of 16 terabytes."

I recommend they include several spare drives in their RAID arrays...

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Comments

  • Let's play the idea of breaking even.

    $5.000.000 (investment) / 16 (terabytes) = $312500 per 1 Terabyte (or $305.18 for 1 Gigabyte).

    This is just for breaking even, and not low-end at all. @yoursunny can offer these specs on the Moon for much much cheaper (accepting payment even in push-ups).

  • MikeAMikeA Member, Patron Provider

    So it's a fraud, just like most other things in Florida?

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  • NeoonNeoon Community Contributor, Veteran

    @MikeA said:
    So it's a fraud, just like most other things in Florida?

  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    @default said: Let's play the idea of breaking even.

    I'm sure $5m is just seed-level financing. To actually get something like this up into a functioning business would take tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars. This is probably just proving the technology.

    Some further details:

    "The first datacenter payload will be built for Lonestar by space logistics company Skycorp, and will be based on a multi-core RISC-V server design. It will also be based on an 8TB M.2 SSD from Taiwan-based flash storage outfit Phison, which announced in December that the drive had passed the necessary flight qualification tests required to be included in the payload."

  • onsite support need to be astronauts...

  • coldcold Member

    @yoursunny ! you finally have competition!!! ipv10 is on his was to the moon !!!!

  • @raindog308 said: This is probably just proving the technology.

    Wow! Expensive proof of concept.

  • hostbethostbet Member, Host Rep

    At day time, the temperature on lunar surface is about 125 degree celcius. no atmosphere so more asteroids imagine the data center being hit by a asteroid, also due to lack of atmosphere it might cause overheating issues? Moon is far away from us so there would be significant delay in communication as well?

  • Theranos of Hosting

  • MrEdMrEd Member

    @hostbet said:
    At day time, the temperature on lunar surface is about 125 degree celcius. no atmosphere so more asteroids imagine the data center being hit by a asteroid, also due to lack of atmosphere it might cause overheating issues? Moon is far away from us so there would be significant delay in communication as well?

    They just need to get fiber directly to the Moon :D

  • hostbethostbet Member, Host Rep

    @MrEd said:

    @hostbet said:
    At day time, the temperature on lunar surface is about 125 degree celcius. no atmosphere so more asteroids imagine the data center being hit by a asteroid, also due to lack of atmosphere it might cause overheating issues? Moon is far away from us so there would be significant delay in communication as well?

    They just need to get fiber directly to the Moon :D

    Lol, even that would also take much more time. Atleast 1-1.5 seconds to communicate with the server from the earth for sure.

  • BlaZeBlaZe Member, Host Rep

    IPv6 available?

    @yoursunny

  • coldcold Member

    @BlaZe said:
    IPv6 available?

    @yoursunny

    ipv10

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  • An absolutely fraudulent behavior.

  • @raindog308 said:
    utm_source

    LET doing paid placement now? Interesting.

  • @raindog308 said: I recommend they include several spare drives in their RAID arrays...

    those who know

  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    @Dazzle said: LET doing paid placement now? Interesting.

    Nyah, I just copied the URL and changed the utm_source when I posted it here to mess with their analytics :-)

  • defaultdefault Veteran
    edited March 2023

    THIS MIGHT BE ALL A CONSPIRACY!

    Corporations could possibly want to communicate with the aliens by gaining access to the alien technology located within the hollow moon and solve the problem of human overpopulation.

    @deank has warned us all along: The end is nigh.

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