I've not seen a single politician calling for statewide bans on golf courses.

Its pretty obvious here that people decided datacenters were bad first, then went looking for justifications second.

Go look up articles from mid to late 2010s. There's where you will find frustration about golf courses, during the time where water restrictions were being put on residential lawns. Do not conflate the more recent, more successful campaign of anti-data-center sentiment with the non-existence of a past campaign against golf courses. It existed, it just petered out.