Data Centers Drink the Water Supply Dry, Wet T-Shirt Contests Starve

Description

A sepia-toned editorial cartoon (signed 'BAYSAL') repurposed with tech labels. A fat, wealthy-looking man in a suit sits in an armchair, mouth gaping to swallow the entire stream gushing from a large water pipe; he is labeled 'Data Centers'. Beside him, an emaciated, desperate figure sits on the ground catching only the few stray drips falling from the pipe, labeled 'Wet T-Shirt Contests'. The cartoon satirizes the enormous water consumption of hyperscale data centers for cooling - especially amid the AI boom - leaving comically little water for, of all things, wet t-shirt contests, the absurd victim choice being the joke