East Meck’s student population were left distraught on Tuesday following a power outage of seemingly unknown cause. However, our prize-winning journalistic team at The Beagle has unearthed the cause of the issue: an overwhelming demand for power coming from skyrocketing use of the new tool known as Bark AI.

Bark AI (Actual Intelligence), launched just yesterday as The Beagle‘s new enterprise to enhance student learning and well-being, has quickly gained a massive userbase over the last 24 hours. Late in the school day on Tuesday, the number of prompts to the chatbot reached such a high level that the servers, running on three broken Chromebooks wired together in the basement of the 300, burst into flame after drawing over 400 megawatts of electricity from their 120-volt power supply. The resulting short-circuit promptly set off all breakers in the school, leaving the campus without power for over two hours.

In his message to the school community on Tuesday afternoon, Space Chancellor Drye denied his culpability in the incident. “I’m more of a ChatGPT or Copilot kind of guy,” he asserted, claiming that he had used Bark AI to write “no more than 3 mass emails to staff.” The Beagle‘s technology staff, however, asserted that at least three thousand prompts had been issued from a single computer in the main office over the course of Tuesday’s school day.