Today we are joined by William Hawkins from Lonestar Data Holdings. Lone Star Data Holdings is designing and deploying data centers on the lunar surface and in cislunar orbit to protect humanity's data off Earth. The team consists of experts in licensing communications for space, orbital mechanics, data center build-outs, space investment, and space law. The need for data centers on the moon and in cislunar orbit varies for different nations and companies, from storing sensitive data in contested areas to processing data collected in space.

Takeaways

Lone Star Data Holdings is building data centers on the moon and in cislunar orbit to protect humanity's data off Earth.

The team consists of experts in licensing communications for space, orbital mechanics, data center build-outs, space investment, and space law.

Businesses should focus on backups, mutability, indexing, understanding, and securing their data for effective data utilization and protection.

AI tools can assist in research, administrative tasks, and data understanding, but are not currently a core part of Lone Star's mission.

Educating the market about the benefits of data storage in space involves explaining the challenges of communications and the importance of geographically diverse data storage.

The long-term goals of Lone Star include preventing large-scale data loss, providing data storage and processing capabilities in space, and deploying very long baseline interferometry for radio astronomy.

The future of data management and security will involve responsible data storage, compliance, cybersecurity, and the use of AI tools for data understanding and automation.