The Hardware Has Already Landed
The first hardware data centre is already on the Moon . Not in a conceptual white paper, not in a venture-capital pitch deck, but physically installed on lunar regolith, processing data 384,400 kilometres from the nearest Ethernet cable. That fact alone marks a threshold crossed, but it is merely the opening salvo in what has become a remarkably crowded—and consequential—race to move humanity's computational infrastructure into orbit.