> Seems kind of crazy to me that people shouldnt' have a say in what gets built near them.

People get really irrational about things built near them and their say causes problems finding anywhere to build reasonable things.

> There are certainly things I wouldn't want to live near to, data centers being one of them.

Give it a residential noise limit and I'm happy to live near a data center. (I am worried about power prices but that's a matter of total number rather than specific location, and utilities charging them enough to cover expansion.)