For Chandler residents, the numbers do not tell the entire story. They are partial truths devoid of the wider context that do not capture their grievances or the extent of their harms. For the data centers, the numbers tell an unambiguous story of exoneration. The numbers from sensor readings enable them to claim no culpability for the noise pollution experienced by residents. While undeniably loud and a growing public nuisance, the offending party clings to the numbers as epistemic shields, while the residents insist on their inadquacy. For City officials, who must abide by laws that favor the data center's argument (because they are based on numeric thresholds), the truthiness of these numbers shifts as they consider their own re-election prospects. The latitutde of action and horizon of solutions shifts as they seek a resolution that does not negate the truthiness of the sensor readings but calls for an expansion of the ontological field to include the subjective and qualitative experiences of harm as well as hertz frequency measures. 

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