It looks like evaporative cooling is not the only thing Intel does. Recharging the aquifer at the Phoenix site is another: https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/www3/region9/waterinfr...

Depending upon how they do this and how much they are adding back into the aquifer, that can have a positive impact on the local ecology.

According to those slides, those were not the only strategies Intel used at the Phoenix site. It also added that there are already many water reductions strategies in use (which I agree with), so it doesn’t require groundbreaking research to develop.