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Never have been near a data center, but walked under windmills: from about 100 meters you hear the "whoom-whoom-whoom" sound, and if you walk right under, it gets uncomfortable because of added vibrations. But it's nothing terrible and neither it can be heard from a big distance - the noise didn't make us regret our walk under the windmills - we talked normally under them, etc