Dangerous data centers: Top ten cartoons of the week

With tech companies squeezing A.I.-powered tools into every product they can, energy-hungry data centers are popping up across the country to provide the necessary processing power.

Our most popular cartoon this week, from the pen of John Cole, visualizes the problem with a giant yellow bird putting pressure on the power grid. Pat Bagley also drew a popular data center cartoon focused on a real farmer's fear.

Otherwise, the focus continues to be on high prices. Can't A.I. do something about that?

Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. John Cole

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#2. Milt Priggee

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#3. Jonathan Brown

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#4. John Darkow

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#5. Pat Bagley

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#6. Dave Whamond

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#7. Dave Whamond

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#8. Dave Granlund

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#9. Rick McKee

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#10. Harley Schwadron

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Daryl Cagle is the publisher of Cagle.com and owner of CagleCartoons.com, a syndicate that distributes editorial cartoons and columns to over 500 subscribing newspapers. See Daryl’s blog at DarylCagle.com and watch his video podcast about editorial cartoons at Caglecast.com