I mean so what they just pump it through and send it back to the river probably cleaner then it originally was. What’s the problem? The water is not being wasted
The header image for the article is a picture of steam rising up from their datacenter. Nearly all water that we use is eventually recycled. Steam will eventually come back down as rain, and rainwater works its way through the ground and into streams and rivers - the magic of the water cycle. Water is a renewable resource from that perspective. The issue is the rate at which we use it, because the water cycle is not…
By that logic nobody consumes or uses water. I think you are conflating local scarcity with global recycling. If I irrigate a new golf course in Arizona I am consuming scarce local water that will become rain in somewhere wet like Florida or Georgia or the Atlantic.