The Abilene Stargate campus will reportedly use a closed-loop, non-evaporative liquid cooling system that requires an initial refill of around 1 million gallons of water, with “minor” maintenance refills. Cook is skeptical that such closed-loop systems will use as little water as they suggest. It’s not possible, Cook says, to use the same water over and over again, recycled infinitely, to cool servers.

“Everything always gets warmer. There’s always some amount of energy lost,” Cook said. “So it would be impossible for you to constantly be able to use the same water and still get the cooling potential that you’re getting now.”

Yikes. Talk about a fundamental lack of knowledge and understanding how heating/cooling works. So this is a complete nothing-Burger for that “Stargate” Datacenter.