Startup Lonestar Data Holdings wants to send data centers to the Moon to back up the world's data and provide Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), a press statement reveals.
The news comes shortly after SpaceX's latest rideshare mission, Transporter-5, launched the world's first "crypto satellite", Crypto1, paving the way for secure blockchain cryptography from space.
Lonestar's desire to store data off-world draws comparisons to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which is an insurance policy of sorts for humanity aimed at protecting crop diversity. Instead of crops, however, Lonestar aims to protect human knowledge, and instead of the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago, it will place that knowledge on the Moon's surface, and possibly even in its lava tubes.
"Data is the greatest currency created by the human race," explained Chris Stott, Founder of Lonestar. "We are dependent upon it for nearly everything we do and it is too important to us as a species to store in Earth's ever more fragile biosphere. Earth's largest satellite, our Moon, represents the ideal place to safely store our future."
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