But you could set up your own file-serving node and then data transfer to end-user Colab instances would be free, right? ("Free" — costing only as much your CDN

But you could set up your own file-serving node and then data transfer to end-user Colab instances would be free, right? ("Free" — costing only as much your CDN costs for 360TB/day, which is still quite pricey, I think, but not as much as $10K/day. I.e. Google wouldn't charge you for data transfer here.)