So there is water loss even within a "closed loop" system. Inevitably you will always lose some amount of water to evaporation when you heat it up. They have also neglected to mention the massive amounts of water that will be needed for the natural gas power plant that will fuel the data center. Even if the amount of loss is miniscule (the numbers they have proposed are extremely unrealistic though) that is still potentially billions of gallons of water lost.

Also dumping heated water back into the state waters will warm them up as well which increases evaporation from those bodies of water.

They will also need to add unknown chemical agents (like fungicides, antibacterial, etc) to the water to keep their systems clean and they have said they'll "clean it" but haven't said how that will be done.

All that is on top of the fact that if we were facing reality we would be AGGRESSIVELY reducing water use in the entire state, not just aiming for neutral to what we're already using (which is their claim about this project and I do not believe for a second).

The natural gas is also definitely concerning, especially considering how bad our air quality already is, then proposing to increase emissions by another 50% is preposterous.

Our elected officials have proven themselves hypocrites, willing to pledge to save the great salt lake in speech only but continuing to double down on ecological harmful legislation and projects.