Data Center Water ROI

was out to dinner recently waiter approached our table "let me fill those waters for you, do we have any allerg—" before he could start pouring, i stopped him in his tracks "sir, is something wrong?" "yes, i don't want a single drop of water wasted on this dinner." he seemed confused, so i explained "a data center can use that entire jug of water to power 3 minutes of agentic workflows. that's a much higher ROI than keeping me hydrated." eventually, i managed to convince every table at the restaurant to do the same. they all clapped as i loaded the spare water onto a truck heading for the closest data center i haven't had anything to drink in weeks, and i'm starting to hallucinate, but if hallucinating is good enough for the LLMs, it's good enough for me

A fake social media post describes a diner refusing water because it could supposedly power three minutes of agentic AI workflows at a data center. He then collects the restaurant’s water for AI infrastructure and proudly accepts dehydration and hallucinations as a reasonable tradeoff. The joke mocks exaggerated AI enthusiasm, absurd return-on-investment logic, and the environmental cost of data centers. EN: A fake social media post describes a diner refusing water because it could supposedly power three minutes of agentic AI workflows at a data center. He then collects the restaurant’s water for AI infrastructure and proudly accepts dehydration and hallucinations as a reasonable tradeoff. The joke mocks exaggerated AI enthusiasm, absurd return-on-investment logic, and the environmental cost of data centers.

• @gentoomemes / 21063 2026-06-08