The ambitions of a Texas-based startup to use the surface of the Moon as a site for data centeroperations have lifted off in a new project designed by BIG and facilitated by SpaceX.The 3D printed Freedom Data Center for the seven-year-old Lonestar Data Holdings Inc. is 26 x 17 cm (10.24 x 6.69 inches) with the capacity to store up to 8 TB of data.Image: courtesy Lonestar Data HoldingsLonestar says they are the first to explore the imposition of data centers on the lunar surface, anticipating the needs of the digital economy as it progresses into an AI-dominated and potentially quantum computing-driven new stage while eliminating the need for carbon-heavy developments on Earth.Image: courtesy Lonestar Data HoldingsThe likenesses of NASA astronauts Charles Duke and Nicole Stott are recreated to give form to the object, which comes to the moon via the Athena lander made by another startup called Intuitive Machines. (It began its journey this week from the NASA Kennedy Space Cente...