Anyone who thinks modern data centers don’t use recirculated water can safely have their opinions summarily discarded.
Anyone who thinks that modern data centers don't evaporate their "recirculated FRESH water" straight into the ocean can safely have their opinions summarily discarded.
Please google "datacenter evaporative cooling" and then re-evaluate
Data centers consume...a lot...of water by design, recirculated water, does not means no water consumption. Water must be continuously added in evaporative cooling systems used by many data centers.
[1] - Cooling towers reject heat through evaporation, which uses water, not just recirculates it. Evaporated water is lost to the atmosphere and must be replaced with "make-up" water. As a result, recirculating cooling loops still require new water input to make up evaporation and blowdown losses.
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooling_tower