First-ever data center on the Moon set to launch next month

[Squid Surprise]

Your comments: "... there's no dark side of the moon. All sides of the moon get equal sunlight, ..." is in opposition to the answer I got from my "smartphone", which said the same face of the moon always points at the Earth because it's gravitationally "tidal locked" as it rotates around our planet; thus, there is a dark side of the moon. And, when the dark side eventually gets explored, I hope we find evidence that humankind is not alone in the cosmos.

Yeah... except it's the SUN that provides light... not the Earth...

The Moon does have a side that is always facing away from Earth - that would be the FAR side of the Moon. Each side of the moon still gets the same sunlight.

 

[pnntmp]

Data retrieval times mysteriously absent.. would also be curious about consistency.

This is more of a proof of concept thing,
I don't think they have something like a cloud storage in mind. The moon is 1.3 light seconds away, which is a lot, and obviously you can't have data transfer rates suitable for a general purpose remote storage.

But data centers that generate synthetic data and use it to train AI models - why not? They don't need serious transfer rates.

 

[jeffbert]

Hurry-up & make the future happen now!