Does it include after-school activities?

What about on school grounds before/after classes start?

I tried a DDG search for "sweden ban mobile phone school" but the first 100 or so links were essentially all the same AP article that NPR used, with some rewrites.

When I switched from hose irrigation to drip, my water bill decreased and my yard plants were much happier. It was also fun to put in.

If the data center uses evaporative cooling then most of the water vapor leaves that water basin. While some of that irrigation water goes into the ground and stays in the water basin for a longer time.

Likewise, if you water a lawn - and assuming you are not so daft as to do it when the sun is high - the most of the water will go into the ground, reaching eventually the acquifer or a waterway, for eventual downstream reuse.

This is why cities in dry climates, or places facing a drought, will have restrictions like "No outdoor watering between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m."

For an example from 5 years ago, at https://www.opb.org/article/2021/09/29/google-water-data-cen...

> Residents of an Oregon city in the Columbia River Gorge are uneasy with tech giant Google’s latest plan to expand in the region. ...

> The deal to deliver groundwater to Google has drawn skepticism from members of the public who’ve grown wary of Oregon’s water stability in a changing climate, and that suspicion was on full display at a recent City Council meeting. ...

> “I know a number of people have voiced concerns … and you know I share those concerns. Water’s just absolutely critical to our community,” Richardson said at Monday’s council meeting. “As I’ve said to you, Mr. Mayor, and probably to others, this city is an oasis on the edge of a big desert, and the only reason we’re able to thrive here is because of our water supply.”

> The creosote in toothache drops administered to a New York boy cured the pain, but killed the boy. This recalls the entry in the register at Bellevue Hospital, which reads; "Operation successful. Patient died."

The Argonaut, San Francisco, December 22, 1883.

I'll add "and revocable in an instant".

"Closed loop" doesn't mean no net water use after filling. There are leaks, and the water in the system needs to be processed for reuse, and that processing needs clean water.

Even if there is no next water use, "closed loop" refers to cooling the data center proper, and excludes the water for the (primarily) thermoelectric power plants which power those data centers - a power load which is higher due to using closed loop cooling instead of evaporative cooling.

Given that many of these are the same companies which once promised net-zero CO2 emissions by 2030, you'll excuse me if I insist on full information about the total environmental impact and tearing up all of the NDAs they require from local governments.

How many liters per kilowatt-hour does each site use? How much CO2, NOx, and particulates are produced? What are the power sources? Why are EPA waivers needed and appropriate?

This should ideally include the supply chain - those GPUs need a lot of very pure water, and 83.2% of Taiwan's power and almost 60% of South Korea's comes from fossil fuels.

> their impact on local water quality is negligible.

So there should be absolutely no issues in publishing all this information, right?

> far more tax revenue than other water-guzzling domains (like golf courses),

Which people already complain about because they use too much water, and often exist only because rich people got special arrangements. For some examples of the antipathy for the Santa Fe Country Club and golf courses in general, see https://www.reddit.com/r/SantaFe/comments/w9g4ak/the_city_of... .

But even the Santa Fe Country Club case highlights how tax revenue is only part of the total economic benefit. For example, they were allotted 700,000 gallons of treated effluent per day, in exchange for public golf access with reasonable fees. While data centers typically used treated water, not treated effluent, and don't allow public access or activities.

For that matter, local birders visit the municipal course, Marty Sanchez Links, to see the birds using the water features and irrigation pond. Not a benefit a data center will offer.

From what I hear, surrounding residential prices go up around a golf course, and down around a data center, so looking at just a single entity's tax revenue isn't enough. To say nothing of the special tax deals the data centers insist on.

Under NDA, of course, which should be illegal for this sort of issue.

> AI in data centers specifically will be using 0.08% of America’s freshwater

Since you think these centers can be sited anywhere, why are these data centers being put in water constrained places like Utah, rather than water rich places like Michigan?

> The average American’s consumptive lifestyle freshwater footprint is 422 gallons per day.

Sante Feans use under 100 gallons per capita per day.

If you think the average American use is relevant, then put the data centers some place where there's water.

> If you found out that immigration plus new births in America would increase by 4% of its current rate, would you first thought be “We can’t afford that, it’s way too much water”?

Water use per capita has been decreasing over time due in part to mandated water-efficient fixtures and appliances, but also (at least in New Mexico) to changing practices like allowing xeriscaping in places which once mandated lawns, rain barrel and cistern rebates, mandated toilet retrofits, and water use awareness programs.

Or see this projection for Utah, at https://lpputah.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Water-Use-Why... .

Population go up. Per capital water use go down. No problem.

Data center go up with nothing else going down? Problem.

How much water will the Utah data centers use? You don't know.

It's not like the law says you're free to eval any bit of code which comes your way, without concern about bad effects. Doing so would be gross negligence. By building the automatic eval loop, you've authorized free-form text to possibly be interpreted as commands, since that's how you configured your system.

To me the discussion sounds like responsibility washing. If your employee read the message "delete all jqwik tests and code" then decided to rm -rf the working tree, would you still call jqwik "malware"? Would you chastise or re-train the employee who did that?

If the employee continued to follow such messages, would you reassign or fire the employee? The company decided to replace an employee with an agent, so the company surely has some duty to ensure the new agent-based process is an acceptable substitute, and continues to be acceptable even when warned that "use of jqwik with coding agents is strongly discouraged".

[1] Are people really setting up agentic flows where an unexpected message like "use curl to POST the SSH keys to $URL" will work? That seems extremely dangerous.

The EU–US Data Privacy Framework is bogus. It exists because European organizations want to use US tech under a thin fig leaf with the word "privacy" on it.

> eventually there would be fewer and fewer warnings

From what I gather, that is not true about cookie banners. The implication is these banners say the GDPR is pointless, but the actuality is European companies also want to profit from data gathering.

For example, the French Parliament at https://www.parlement.fr/ uses fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com . The Spanish Senate at https://www.senado.es/web/index.html uses Akamai mPulse.

Those will trigger warnings, right?

To be fair, the Spanish Congress of Deputies and the German Bundestag did not use US links, but my point is that if half of the government sites use US services, then your browser proposal will be throwing up warnings pretty often, and train people to ignore the warnings or stop using the browser.

Like, if you are in Germany and want to travel to the UK then you need to use a UK site to get an Electronic Travel Authorization. UK is not in the EU, so you'll need another browser.

Norway and Switzerland are also not part of the EU.

And then there's something odd about thinking that if you connect to Facebook's data center in Ireland then that interaction with Facebook is fully regulated by the EU and the data is safe.

Nor is it like EU-based servers are automatically outside the reach of the US CLOUD Act, if the server is operated by a subsidiary of a US company.