57. Data Centers in Space, with Sharif Al-Romaithi (Madari Space)

Your government's most sensitive data: medical records, banking systems, national archives, might soon be orbiting 500km above your head, beyond the reach of any army, hacker, or natural disaster on Earth.In this episode, I sit down with Shareef Al Romaithi, a former Etihad Airlines pilot who traded the cockpit for the cosmos. After two near-misses with the UAE astronaut program, he founded Madari Space - a startup building a constellation of data centers in low Earth orbit, backed by the UAE government and set to launch its first mission in 2027.We get into why terrestrial data centers are quietly becoming an environmental disaster (they emit more carbon than the entire airline industry), how data sovereignty could become the next geopolitical battleground, and why "the Switzerland of data" might not be a country at all - it might be orbit.We also talk radiation testing, laser communication between satellites, the new space race between the US and China, and what it means for a nation's most valuable asset to live beyond its own borders.If your data isn't safe on Earth, is it safer in space? Or are we just outsourcing the same problem to a place we can't even send a repair team?Stay curious. Question everything.#MizterRadShow #FutureOfHumanity_Full episodes' transcripts: https://www.mizter-rad.com/episodesMore abotu Madari Space: https://madari.ae/