Well, that would be a form of Justice.

Offer me a local or rented-tenant isolated clone of ChatGPT that is under my control, then we'll talk.

Oh, and my agents, be they human or computer, should only get "read" access, which means my financial institutions will need to provide a credentials that only have read access.

Bottom line:
* I don't trust AI not to try to make changes to my account, but I do trust my financial institutions to not allow a "read-only" login to make changes.
* I don't trust ChatGPT or the other big-name AI companies with my data any more than I have to. Maybe someday, when there are laws in place that have been tested in court, but until then, not so much.

That way I can guarantee that it won't be "connected."

ChatGPT, look at the proposed ArXiv submission and identify anything that looks like "AI slop."

I'm eleventy-ten percent sure someone will try this and twelvity-ten-percent sure it will actually work. /sarcasm

Those are two very different questions.

Once you decide that "at all" is okay, the selfishly-ideal location is "In my neighborhood" so I enjoy the tax and economic benefits, but not "in my backyard" so I don't have to deal with the drawbacks.

"Neighborhood" would be same city/county/taxing district or within reasonable commuting distance for work. "In my backyard" is close enough to be bothered by its presence.

... down his student debt.

Nuclear reactors use most surface water, not ground water.

Datacentres are no pickier. You can even cool a datacentre with saltwater, you just need a heat exchanger.

Also, closed loop does not evaporate. The loop is not closed if stuff escapes from it.

You're arguing with the actual terminology used in the nuclear industry. "Closed loop" or "closed cycle" designs have the water pumped in a cycle through cooling towers. The towers lose water to evaporation, taking heat with them, but the rest of the water is returned to be reheated again. "Open loop" or "open cycle" designs have no cooling towers. The water is heated and just discharged hot. They consume much more water (over an order of magnitude more), but most of that is returned. Closed loop are more common, but you see open loop in some older designs, and in seawater-cooled reactors.

"How often do you think I print?"

Seemingly not very.

I've printed many hundreds of kg on my P1S, thanks.

I do not consider having to write data out to a card and transport it back and forth between the printer and the computer to be the pinnacle of convenience. That's something that would be considered embarrassingly inconvenient for a 1980s printer, let alone a modern net-connected device. And it's designed to be inconvenient for non-cloud prints for a reason.

It varies. Each city or water-supply-company decides how to bill its customers, within limits set by law.

The next major ransomware victims will sue Instructure for encouraging ransomware attacks.

Also, anything sounds big when you put it in gallons. Doesn't sound so big when you mention that's 92 acre feet, the amount used by less than 20 acres / 8 hectares of alfalfa per year. Or when you mention that a typical *closed loop* 1GW nuclear reactor uses 6-20 billion gallons of cooling water per year (once-through uses 200-500 billion gallons, though most of that is returned, whereas closed loop evaporates it)

I don't think it has anything to do with that. As soon as I saw the headline, my mind went "cohort study". And sure enough, yeah, it's a cohort study. Remember that big thing about how wine improves your health, and then it turned out to just be that people who drink wine tend to be wealthier and thus have better health outcomes? And also, the "sick quitter" effect, where people who are in worse health would tend to stop drinking, so you ended up with extra sick people in the non-wine group? Same sort of thing. This study says they're controlling for a wide range of factors, but I'd put money on it just being the same sort of spurious correlations.

This sounds like the video game version of the MadTV sketch Apple presents the iRack from a couple of decades ago, spoofing the war in Iraq.

"Bureaucratic slip-up allows facility under construction to delay paying for water bill for several months. Coincidentally, facility happens to be a data center."