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They use water for cooling, but do not consume water for cooling. Yes, they’ll use water as a heat conductor medium so it goes to where it can be cooled and sent back, but it’s a loop.
You may find the actual usage to be quite low.
Data centers use evaporative cooling which has the water turn to steam. The steam can recondense and be sent back into the system, but a non-negligible amount is lost to the environment. This is why recently Chile partially reversed Google’s permit for a new data center