Why do datacenters continuously use more water instead of recycling the same water in a closed loop system?

Question

Why do datacenters continuously use more water instead of recycling the same water in a closed loop system?

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Answer 1

Is their water use consumptive or non-consumptive? In other words if they are taking cool water from a source and putting warm water back into that source it could be considered that they are using the same water over and over again.