# The Shock of “Orbital Data Centers” — What Google, SpaceX, and Anthropic Are Building

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Podcast: [*“Yesterday, I Went to Mars ♡”*](https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663)
Published: 2026-05-13T02:25:00+00:00
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## Resource

In this episode, I reflect on the growing collaboration between companies like Google, SpaceX, and Anthropic, and what it says about the future of AI infrastructure. What first sounded like science fiction — orbital AI data centers powered by satellites and solar energy in space — is now being discussed as a real long-term strategy. As AI systems require more electricity, cooling, and compute power, the industry is starting to move beyond software and into areas like energy, semiconductors, communications, and even aerospace. I also talk about how competition in AI is changing. Companies that compete directly in one area are increasingly cooperating in another, sharing infrastructure and resources because the scale of AI development has become too large for any single company to handle alone. The conversation explores how AI is gradually evolving from “just chatbots” into something much closer to global infrastructure.

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