Lonestar Data Sees Moon as Effective Data Storage Location
NewSpace commercial enterprise Lonestar Data Holdings seeks safety for critical data from the 402 quintillion bytes created daily by humans, a number that doubles every few months; Chair and CEO Chris Stott says lunar storage, orbital and eventually on / under Moon surface, would be the best defense from a catastrophe-caused data center shut-down or loss that makes vital information unavailable; Stott wants to preserve human knowledge so it is not lost as when the Alexandria library burned, says the time is now, when cost to put a kilogram in space is US$5,000, down from $100,000