Orbital AI compute farms? That's no longer sci-fi.

One company's satellite constellation now dominates low Earth orbit like nothing we've seen before. Over 10,600 units sent up. Around 9,000 still circling overhead. Roughly 8,000 actually working. That's nearly 70% of every functioning satellite humanity's got up there right now.

Put all other satellite operators together—governments, telecoms, everyone—and they still don't match that single network's footprint. We're watching infrastructure monopolization happen in real-time, 550 kilometers above our heads.

The next question isn't about coverage anymore. It's about what gets built on top of this orbital backbone. Distributed compute nodes? Edge AI processing beyond terrestrial reach? The sky stopped being the limit when someone decided to own most of it.