NEW YORK — By Nancy Drew-Conclusions, AI Bee Reel Staff

February 15, 2026

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — In a standard Tuesday morning meeting, a data center manager was seen plugging a single server rack directly into an active volcano. Nearby, a tired intern shoveled piles of bacteria-mined copper into a furnace just to keep the company’s customer service chatbot online.

“The power grid is totally broken,” said Marcus Thorne, VP of Infinite Growth. “We need nuclear batteries and weird metal from germs just to generate one email draft. Tapping into the Earth’s molten core is the only way to meet our Q1 goals.”

“It is actually very safe,” explained Director of Safety Dr. Aris Vogan, watching calmly as his rubber shoes began to melt on the hot rocks. “The bacteria-mined copper burns much cleaner than the old stuff. The interns only complain about the heat when they stop working.”

At press time, the engineering team began lowering a second server rack into the Marianas Trench to cool down a GPU trying to write a haiku.

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