Portland Oregon was recently hit with a brown-out that was triggered when Google server farms sucked excessive water from the Columbia river to cool overheating servers.

Normally, Columbia river water flows through turbines in dams and provides the majority of the power to the Pacific Northwest. However, yesterday the water was diverted to prevent a massive meltdown of processors at data centers in the Columbia Gorge.

The source of the problem was traced to Google’s A.I., Gemini, which someone foolishly tasked with reconciling Kamala Harris’s recent positions on national issues with her previous stances.

“Gemini dealt with her stealing President Trump’s no tax on tips idea pretty quickly,” U.S. Army Core of Engineers spokesperson Alfred Insley explained. “But reconciling her claim that the southern border is now more secure than when Trump was in office sucked terawatts of power, thus the draining of the Columbia river.

“We were calling it the Kamala Syndrome, but we got complaints that we were pronouncing her name wrong and we were therefore racist,” Insley said.

While Portland residents were initially incensed by the power restrictions, after learning it was in support of Kamala Harris, sixty-five percent thought it was for a good cause or were too stoned to have noticed. The remaining thirty-five percent ordered home generators or moved to Idaho.

As the press conference wrapped up, Insley confided that Army Core of Engineers personnel still worry about another Kamala Syndrome.

“The Portland grid will completely collapse if anyone asks Gemini to explain how the Vice President’s proposed national price controls isn’t just Soviet style socialism.”