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I'm googling this and common opinion seems to be that cold water will lower their body temperature and can cause shock. As I said I did do warm water once, and room temperature water once with no issues but after reading I'd probably do warm water from here on out to be safe.

I always say a little redundancy never hurt. My hatchery recommended it so why not? This is my weird personal opinion, but I've heard you shouldn't use warm water from the tap to cook with or eat because hot water will bring out more mineral build up from your pipes so you should use cold...

The idea is it helps get their internal temp of faster. It certainly doesn't hurt them to have some warm water in the first hour. My first round of chicks I gave them warm water, my second round I gave them room temp water. They've all done fine but that's a small number of samples.