the generators and cooling equipment on some data centers are certainly audible.

https://youtube.com/shorts/AAQsnrAHy5Y?si=vgmEGHS38mzzs2G9

Another video of the same data center:

https://www.reddit.com/r/interesting/comments/1uleoa2/sound_...

Sound meter shows "only" ~60 db, but that constant audible hum is, IMO, the data center actually assaulting those residents and apparently doing so 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

If someone who lived near that place set fire to the data center and I ended up on the jury and heard these recordings I would do everything in my power to nullify because that seems like a completely justified response to me in the face of the company running the data center not shutting down until the problem is fully fixed.