That's true for literally any construction project.

Yep - but you'd rather not have it than have it, if you live nearby. Especially on data center scale.

You can mitigate noise directionally.

Not successfully. These things are massive, and it's very hard to create noise buffers even for far quieter uses than datacenters.

I popped over to google maps, and this property has residential development literally across the street on two sides. It a client came to me with even conventional low-impact light industrial, such as a warehouse use, I would tell them that they would have a hard time getting it approved. This is not a parcel that wants to be light-industrial. It especially does not want to be data center light industrial which operates at night. Data centers are uses that belong in the same sorts of areas that light industrial and industrial parks are generally found - separated from existing or proposed residential by either large barriers (like rivers or large limited access highways) or with transitioning uses, like commercial and office. And they need to be on parcels large enough to have material setbacks in order to provide sufficient buffering.

Of course this project generated massive opposition. A data center at that location would have been terrible land use planning.