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The plans to put data centres into orbit and on the moon

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Data centres are the vast warehouses that house stacks of computers that store and process data.

Annual demand for data centres is set to rise between 19% and 22% by 2030 .

Florida -based firm Lonestar Data Holdings claims to have successfully tested a tiny data centre the size of a hardback book.

Lonestar 's next target is to put a small data centre in orbit around the moon in 2027 .

Washington state-based Starcloud is due to launch a satellite-based data centre next month .

The distance to the Moon means that data takes about a second and a half to reach the ground.

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