Seems like a closed loop system would have been, the byproduct of heated water used , harvested to produce electricity to augment or provide total needs of the equipment or at least the facility. Can goobermint architects , planners be so stupid or is water used just dumped back into the reservoir or underground aquifers .....?
If it’s just in the community loop and rotational use with zero loss due cooling only ......then not a real issue is it ?
Just questions, my opinion only....stay safe !
I can almost visualize, since it's the "goobermint" and especially the NSA wanting this up and running as fast as possible, the water being pumped down the proverbial "rat hole" in a whoo-pee for us, screw you fashion :)
The water is evaporated in cooling towers to cool the left-behind water to run through the chillers’ condensers. Large water chillers are where the refrigeration happens. These would be large centrifugal chillers for an installation like this, almost certainly. The evaporator side of the chiller would make chilled water, that is a separate closed loop (condenser/cooling tower side would be open). The chilled water would feed air handlers with chilled water coils serving the computer room.
Back to the water question, some is blown down to drain, as the water left behind at some point has too large a concentration of minerals and contaminants. But most of it is evaporated in cooling towers.
The low-level heat produced is unsuitable for economical electrical power generation. While technically possible, it’s just not do-able on a rational basis.