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The whole reason they don't do it already is that evaporative cooling saves on energy. So their energy consumption will go up if they want to save on water lol
Requiring any datacenter to also include a basin system with recycling of the water should be mandatory.
It doesnt matter how the datacenter is "too big" to handle that, build a bigger fucking pool.