Datacenters might not be as potentially destructive, but they're also a massive net negative for the community in many real world ways. If you want them to "maximize gains", then the answer is "tax them more" which, shockingly, turns into a functional ban because somewhere else is taxing them less.
No they aren't. Datacenters are air conditioned buildings that consume a moderate amount of power and generate a moderate amount of tax revenue through a small number of middle class jobs. They use a negligible amount of water compared to golf and farming and produce a negligible amount of heat compared to cars.
<<If I just paint everyone who doesn't want to support my shitty AI start-up as a stupid Luddite, I can ignore everything they're actually saying and just demand I be allowed to do the thing I want the way I want, where I want! The people living in these communities I have never and will never go to are just too stupid to know what's good for them.>>