Chiptide

In 2025, a Google infrastructure deal transforms a Belgian coastal region into a cooling system for AI computation. The flooding is deliberate, a cost optimisation where human submersion becomes cheaper than server relocation. A new class of AI-adjacent workers adapts to life beneath the waterline, their bodies modified, their labour invisible. Between prediction errors and system glitches, a blind spot opens. Something uncalculated appears. But is it real, or has the narrator finally learned to see what the models cannot?