That's only if you co-locate a power plant near it. With proper setbacks and decent design, there is very little to no noise pollution for the vast majority of these facilities.
Most folks near them do not even know they exist. Plus you typically put them in the middle of a field with berms around them, or in a light industrial park. Not across the street from homes.
Trucking traffic creates far more noise pollution. HVAC fans spinning at optimal speed simply are not a problem for the vast majority of facilities.
Generators running during a power outage? Sure. But those typically are relatively rare events. Testing each month for an hour is just not a material complaint to me.
The cooling makes a lot of noise:
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/11/data-centers-ai-ele...
Add to that the health hazards that come from infrasound:
https://popwave.ai/benn-jordan/blog/data-centers-infrasound-...
People know they exist because they had to dig new wells because the water level sunk or the groundwater pollution reached high levels
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/12/02/massive-data-centers-ma...
Since managed aquifiers are rare, overall water consumption is an issue, regardless of cooling system:
https://harvardsciencereview.org/2026/02/28/re-architecting-...
As for the data enter owned power plants. Did you know that 1820 (global) gas turbines power the datacenters?
https://www.globalinforesearch.com/reports/3130730/data-cent...