AI made me a data center rap. Humanity may never recover.

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I spent a recent Friday afternoon doing something incredibly important for humanity: making an AI-generated rap about data centers. I'd logged into Google's Gemini for actual work, but got sidetracked by a shiny new music feature and, well, priorities shifted.

The workflow was peak 2026: I needed to check who rapped "Baby Got Back" for a story. ChatGPT told me (Sir Mix-a-Lot), and I was gripped by a creative urge.

"Recreate this famous rap, but make it about big data centers (and AI bubble concerns), rather than big butts," I wrote.

Chat delivered lyrics in a few seconds. Then, remembering the Gemini music feature, I jumped across to that chatbot and piped in the lines. I asked for a nasty '80s rap vibe. What I got was Broadway-adjacent hip-hop with strong theater kid energy. Not quite Run-DMC. More Rent meets rack density.

Lows: The AI rapper stubbornly sang "jigawatt" instead of "gigawatt," and refused to pronounce "SaaS-y" correctly, no matter how many times I had Gemini redo the tune.

Highs: It delivered choice lines about PUE and capex with unsettling enthusiasm. (PUE = power usage effectiveness, or how efficiently data centers use electricity).

Of course, I shared the rap. One colleague called it "an abomination." Another said, "you burned so many trees doing this but I love it," which feels directionally correct.

We're not at AGI yet. But we are, apparently, at AI-generated infra rap. If you want a listen, lmk and I'll send the song over.

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