@gerrymcgovern This ridiculous. There is no reason that they couldn't be using closed cycle phase transition (vapor) cooling. They only needed to acquire a small amount of fresh water. The secondary cooling (to return the vapor back to liquid) can be any water, even seawater.
In fact, it could be designed to desalinate by evaporation and return the brine to the sea, OR to mine lithium before returning the brine to the sea.