The cloud needs to drink.
Aerial shot of a small town and its water tower, connected by a massive blue bendy straw directly into a windowless data center. The straw bends over the tower like a kid finishing a milkshake, except the milkshake is the municipal water supply. Houses line the road below, small and white, very much dependent on the same water that’s currently being piped into a building with more air conditioning than the rest of the zip code combined. Every search query has a water cost. Every chatbot answer has a gulp. The town gets whatever drips back down the straw.