Declan Ganley’s Outernet: a private data network in space

The Irish entrepreneur is shooting for the moon at Rivada with his dream of building the world’s fastest, most secure private data network

Declan Ganley's life is straight out of a John le Carré thriller. He is working on a top secret plan to build the Outernet — the world’s first fully private, secure global data network in space. There are rockets, billions of dollars, Chinese state actors and a slew of litigation involved.

The Athenry-based entrepreneur says he is up against some of the world’s most powerful governments and corporations. “If we pull this off, this is an historic Irish accomplishment. Nobody else has done it. Nobody in Silicon Valley has done it. It’s that big,” he says.