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I don't understand the point the post is trying to make.
Accelerating climate change due to increased water vapour in the atmosphere I guess? The post seems to imply that the water disappears but it's not like fracking where the water is no longer retrievable or contaminated afterwards. The pollution to the water from data centres would be heat pollution (also bad, but again, that doesn't seem to be what the post is talking about).
It's simply no longer available to the plants, animals, and humans that would have consumed it otherwise. It's missing downstream.
Water vapor is a greenhouse gas. Its just much less controllable than methane or carbon dioxide.
Also poisoning the un-evaporated water is literally killing us, which is what people usually mean.
Let's just take a second and ignore the massive lapses of information in your post and I will ask you this: do you think the water cycle is instant?
As in, when they are mass pumping out the underground aquifers and draining the man-made reservoirs, do you think that the "magically clean water" discharge from the data centers instantly goes back into said aquifers and reservoirs?