Not with the same ease! That's the point — it is a one-way street. "Having easy access to energy" or "not having easy access to energy" are NOT equivalent states for flourishment. They're not equally "just fine".
The rest seems like you're grinding some anthropomorphic axe unrelated to my post, so I'll abstain.
Life needs an energy gradient. In this case, direct access to colder water. No organism (or machine) can use the heat energy of its environment if it has no access to a colder medium.
Edit: I just saw that Retric explained it better (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17245948).
It looks like my original comment hit some HN ideological hot spot (unintentionally), but it's entirely uncontroversial scientifically.
If a fish is swimming in 24°C water, it can't simultaneously be swimming in 19°C water. Maybe its friend 10 meters away is swimming in 19°C water, but that doesn't help the first fish.
Maybe that fish feels more comfortable in 24°C water, because it needs a certain body temperature to keep its internal processes running (i.e., to not freeze to death), but it cannot harvest energy from the 24°C water, which is what you claimed above. I'm not nitpicking, this is one of the most fundamental and important laws of physics.
This is probably more relevant at temperature gradients greater than 5C, but it's thermodynamically possible.
In this context, we're not worried about the literal definition of natural but about keeping an environment in a state in which humanity can survive.
That's cute, but 1. nature will adapt just fine to both heat and cold so that's not exactly compelling; 2. the issue is we may not, human civilisations have arisen in fairly specific conditions, and tend not to be very resilient to significant environmental changes
> My prediction is we'll be amazed at the life forms that develop and explode around such submerged cooling structures.
My prediction is we won't live long enough to see that happen, it takes kilo- to mega-years for anything more complex than bacterial mats to evolve to use new sources of anything.