Lonestar Data Holdings and Valkyrie Partner for First Lunar Data Center in 2025
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Valkyrie, an artificial intelligence-focused applied science research and development company, will soon hitch a ride to the Moon with a St. Petersburg startup. Austin-based Valkyrie announced Thursday that it formed a strategic partnership with Lonestar Data Holdings, which operates from the Maritime and Defense Technology Hub. In February, the local startup became the first to transmit data to and from space. Chris Stott, founder and CEO of Lonestar, explained that Valkyrie’s AI-powered Graph Database can quickly sift through and retrieve a file before Lonestar beams it back down to Earth.
“It just gets your data so much faster while using less energy and resources,” he said. “It’s having a huge impact down here on the ground,” Stott added. “But in space, it’s game-changing. ” Lonestar will carry Valkyrie’s knowledge graphs – data sets representing real-world entities and their relationships – aboard its second payload to the Moon in January. The partnership positions the two companies at the forefront of a burgeoning lunar economy.
Stott noted the initial skepticism surrounding his goal to establish data centers on the Moon. He said people similarly questioned Valkyrie’s ability to create graphical knowledge databases for AI – “and that was three or four years ago. ” “Now, today, we both look prescient,” Stott said. “For them to see what we see – the possibility and opportunity here to fundamentally change things on the ground for data storage by using the Moon. ” Founded in 2017, Valkyrie has already achieved global success through its tailored AI and machine-learning solutions.
The company has sectors dedicated to industry, government, social impact and motorsports. Clients range from the Department of Defense to the United Way. The U. S. Air Force has used algorithms to fly the Valkyrie XQ-58A combat drone since August 2023.
Stott said he met Valkyrie CEO Charlie Burgoyne on a zero-gravity flight in May. The two companies were testing equipment, and “the moment we started chatting about this stuff, we just lit up. ” Lonestar plans to safeguard the world’s most data in space, away from environmental and human threats. Stott called Valkyrie’s graphical knowledge databasing “the backbone of large language models. ” He noted that the technology searches and retrieves 10,000 times faster than conventional methods.
The overarching goal is to evaluate the process in one of the most.