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0:02United States Data Centres美国数据中心
0:08Not in my backyard.别在我的后院里
0:11How data centres became one of America's hottest political issues.数据中心如何成为美国最热门的政治问题之一.
0:16A spectre is haunting America.幽灵笼罩着美国
0:19The spectre of data centres.数据中心的幽灵。
0:21The computer-filled warehouses powering America's boom in artificial intelligence have become电脑填充的仓库为美国人工智能的繁荣提供了动力
0:26less popular than almost every other kind of infrastructure, even nuclear power plants.比起几乎所有其它类型的基础设施,甚至核电站,都更不受欢迎.
0:32Counties and states are rushing to wrap them in red tape or ban them altogether.各州和各州正在匆忙地将它们用繁文缛节地包裹起来,或者完全禁止它们。
0:37In July, the Ratepayer Protection Act, designed to limit their impact on electricity prices,7月,旨在限制其对电价影响的《纳税人保护法》,
0:43sailed through the committee stage in the House of Representatives.在众议院的委员会舞台上航行。
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1United States Data Centres美国数据中心
2Not in my backyard.别在我的后院里
3How data centres became one of America's hottest political issues.数据中心如何成为美国最热门的政治问题之一.
4A spectre is haunting America.幽灵笼罩着美国
5The spectre of data centres.数据中心的幽灵。
6The computer-filled warehouses powering America's boom in artificial intelligence have become电脑填充的仓库为美国人工智能的繁荣提供了动力
7less popular than almost every other kind of infrastructure, even nuclear power plants.比起几乎所有其它类型的基础设施,甚至核电站,都更不受欢迎.
8Counties and states are rushing to wrap them in red tape or ban them altogether.各州和各州正在匆忙地将它们用繁文缛节地包裹起来,或者完全禁止它们。
9In July, the Ratepayer Protection Act, designed to limit their impact on electricity prices,7月,旨在限制其对电价影响的《纳税人保护法》,
10sailed through the committee stage in the House of Representatives.在众议院的委员会舞台上航行。
11On August 31, Donald Trump wade into the fractious debate, alarming Republicans facing tight8月31日,唐纳德·特朗普(英语:Donald Trump)走进纷争中,令人震惊的共和党人面对紧凑.
12midterm races.中期比赛。
13Local opponents of data centres would end up being backwards and poor, he warned, if他警告说,如果
14they killed the golden goose.他们杀了金鹅。
15The backlash against data centres is scrambling traditional political alignments, reshaping对数据中心的反弹正在破坏传统政治调整,
16the coming elections and unnerving tech firms and investors.即将到来的选举 和不安的技术公司和投资者。
17不太清楚它是否会减缓AI Juggernaut.
18For a sense of how quickly the politics of data centres has changed, consider three very为了了解数据中心的政治变化有多快,请考虑三个
19different states, Illinois, Texas and Pennsylvania.伊利诺伊州、得克萨斯州和宾夕法尼亚州
20In 2019, J.B. Pritzker, the Governor of Illinois, signed a bipartisan law creating incentives2019年,伊利诺伊州州长J·B·普里茨克(J. B. Pritzker)签署两党法律,建立激励机制.
21for their construction.他们的建造。
22In today's world, he declared, data centres are as critical a part of our infrastructure他宣称,在当今世界上, 数据中心是我们基础设施的重要组成部分
23as our roads, trains and schools.作为我们的道路,火车和学校。
24In Texas, Greg Abbott boasted as recently as last year that the state was the epicentre在德克萨斯州 格雷格·阿博特最近吹嘘说 州是震中
25of AI development, while welcoming new Google data centres.欢迎新的Google数据中心。
26Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania's Governor, was similarly enthusiastic.宾夕法尼亚州州长乔什·沙皮罗同样热情.
27We are already all in on AI.我们已经加入了AI。
28In August, Mr. Pritzker had a rather different message.8月,Pritzker先生有一个相当不同的信息。
29Data centres, he told reporters, risked higher electric rates, higher water rates or environmentally他告诉记者,数据中心可能电费高 水费高 或环保
30unsound practices.不当的做法。
31In June, he had unilaterally paused applications for the tax credits introduced in 2019.6月,他单方面暂停申请2019年引入的税收抵免.
32In Texas, Mr. Abbott ordered the state's power utilities to audit all data centres seeking在德克萨斯州,Abbott先生命令该州电力公司审计所有数据中心。
33to draw electricity.用来牵引电源。
34The facilities could endanger the reliability and stability of the Texas electric grid,这些设施可能危及德克萨斯州电网的可靠性和稳定性,
35he warned.他警告过
36Mr. Shapiro has also tightened the rules, giving communities more power to veto projects, whileShapiro先生还收紧了规则,给予社区更多的否决项目的权力,同时,
37tiring his opponent in the gubernatorial race as pro-data centre, increasingly a political在州长赛中疲惫的对手 作为支持数据中心, 越来越是一个政治
38term of abuse.滥用期限。
39A little over a year ago, some polls showed majority support for local data centre construction.一年多前,一些民意测验显示多数人支持建设本地数据中心.
40By March, that had flipped.到了3月,情况已经好转。
41One Gallup poll found 71% opposed.一次盖洛普民意调查发现71%的人反对.
42Surveys by Annenberg recorded a 19-point swing in net favourability between February andAnnenberg的调查表明,在2月至3月期间,净优惠波动为19个百分点。
43June to July.六月至七月. 师曰.
44An Economist YouGub poll from the end of August put opposition at 63%.8月底的经济学家YouGub民调显示,
45Data centres were viewed as bad for the country across every group of voters.每一个选民群体都认为数据中心对该国不利。
46Chicago illustrates the shift.芝加哥说明了这一转变。
47Long before the AI boom, the city and its suburbs hosted scores of data centres thanks早在AI繁荣之前, 城市和郊区就托管了数十个数据中心
48to their position at the heart of America's internet infrastructure and relatively cheap他们处于美国互联网基础设施的核心位置 相对便宜
49electricity.电力。
50Until recently, few people cared.直到最近,很少有人关心。
51Now they are packing public meetings in an effort to stop development across the state.现在他们正在包装公众集会 以阻止全州的发展。
52In August, hundreds turned out to oppose plans for a project on Chicago's south side that,8月,数百人反对芝加哥南边的项目计划
53according to its developers, is not even a data centre.根据它的开发者,它甚至不是一个数据中心。
54In the first eight months of this year, American counties considered 409 moratoriums or similar今年头八个月 美国各州考虑过 409次暂停或类似的
55measures, nearly seven times last year's total.措施,去年的总数近7倍。
56In more than half a dozen states, including virtually every mid-term battleground, more在半个多州, 包括几乎每个中期战场,
57than a fifth of counties have passed at least one moratorium.超过五分之一的县通过了至少一项暂停令。
58This is one of the toughest development issues I've encountered in my career from a land这是我事业中遇到的最棘手的发展问题之一
59use attorney's perspective, says Tommy Mann of Winstead, a Dallas law firm.用律师的视角说 温斯特德的汤米曼 达拉斯律师事务所
60The level of emotion associated with these projects is one that I have not experienced.与这些项目相关的情感水平是我所未经历的.
61Some proponents of data centres have blamed foreign powers for the backlash.一些数据中心的支持者将反弹归咎于外国势力.
62China could not be happier, observed Mr Trump.中国再高兴不过了,
63In June, OpenAI, a model maker, said that a Chinese firm had produced images designed6月,模型制造者OpenAI表示,中国一家公司制作了设计成的图像.
64to undermine support for data centres in America.破坏对美国数据中心的支持
65On August 27, X, the social media platform, said it had identified a 200,000-strong Chinese8月27日,X,社交媒体平台称已认定20万华人.
66bot farm circulating the material.博特农场分发材料。
67Yet the evidence suggests these efforts have had little effect.然而,有证据表明,这些努力效果甚微。
68OpenAI concluded that they generated little or no observable engagement among Americans.OpenAI的结论是,他们很少或根本没有引起美国人的明显接触。
69The real cause of the outrage is simpler.愤怒的真正原因很简单。
70Americans are sceptical of AI, distrust the firms that build it, and fear it will lead美国人对AI持怀疑态度,不信任建立AI的公司,担心它会引领
71to job losses.失业。
72But poll after poll suggests that what worries the most about data centres is their local但民意调查表明 数据中心最担心的 是当地的
73impact, or at least what they imagine that impact to be.影响,至少是他们想象的
74A recent Fox News poll found that 75% of respondents cited concerns such as energy use, water bills最近一项福克斯新闻民意调查发现,75%的受访者提到能源使用、水费等关切问题。
75and traffic as the main reason they opposed a data centre in their area.和流量是他们反对 数据中心在他们地区的主要原因。
76Just 11% pointed to AI itself.只有11%指向AI本身.
77Many of these concerns are overblown.这些关切中有许多被夸大。
78Google, a hyperscaler, says that in 2025 its data centres and offices consumed around 10.9Google是超规模的,他说在2025年,它的数据中心和办公室消耗了大约10.9美元。
79billion gallons, that's 41 billion litres, of water, roughly equivalent, it noted, to大约相当于410亿升的水, 它指出,
80the annual irrigation of 73 golf courses in the South West.每年灌溉西南部73个高尔夫球场。
81Amazon, another hyperscaler, says its global fleet of data centres used 2.5 billion gallons亚马逊是另一个超规模的 说它的全球数据中心 使用了25亿加仑
82last year, down by 2% from 2024, despite adding more facilities.去年,比2024年下降了2%,尽管增加了更多的设施。
83In 2023, crop irrigation consumed 74 times more water than data centres, even after accounting2023年,农作物灌溉耗水量是数据中心的74倍,即使经过核算
84for the water used to generate their power.是用来生产他们的能量的。
85Electricity is a different matter.电力是另一个问题。
86The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a federally funded research centre, estimates联邦资助的研究中心劳伦斯·伯克利国家实验室估计
87that data centres consumed 4.4% of America's electricity in 2023 and could account for数据中心在2023年消耗了4.4%的美国电力 并且可以说明
88between 9.5 and 15.3% by 2030.到2030年达到9.5%至15.3%。
89Their impact on consumers is less clear.它们对消费者的影响不太明确。
90Wholesale prices are being pushed up.批发价格不断上涨.
91That could eventually impact households.这最终会影响到家庭。
92But the Electric Power Research Institute, a think tank, estimates that the growth of但电力研究所,一个智囊团, 估计增长
93data centres actually reduced average electricity prices by 6% between 2019 and 2024 by spreading数据中心在2019年至2024年之间通过推广实际将平均电价降低了6%
94the grid's fixed costs.电网的固定成本。
95In recent weeks, three big utilities, Georgia Power, Pacific Gas and Electric, and Indiana-Michigan最近几周,三家大型公用事业公司,乔治亚电力公司,太平洋天然气电气公司和印第安纳-米奇根公司
96Power, have all linked data centres to lower bills.Power, 拥有所有连接的数据中心和下账单.
97Meanwhile, 30 states have approved or proposed large load tariffs designed to ensure that与此同时,30个州已经批准或提议了大型载荷关税,以确保
98big customers, such as data centres, pay for infrastructure upgrades.数据中心等大客户支付基础设施升级费用。
99The question is whether public opinion is still malleable.问题是,舆论是否仍然可以改变。
100A poll this month by Echelon Insights found that opposition to data centres could be reversedEchelon Insights本月的民意调查发现,对数据中心的反对可能会被推翻
101if respondents were told about just one potential benefit, such as lower property taxes or more如果被调查者只被告知一项潜在好处,例如降低财产税或更多
102spending on schools.学校开支。
103Patrick Ruffini是一名共和党民调员。
104谁是管理Echelon。
105They also seem open to bribes.他们似乎也会受贿。
106Another poll by the University of Virginia found that most people would accept a few弗吉尼亚大学的另一项民意调查发现 大多数人会接受少数
107thousand dollars to support a local data centre, with a median acceptable payment of $10,000.1000美元支持一个本地数据中心,中间可接受的支付额为10,000美元.
108Paying every resident of a median-sized American county would cost around $240 million, pocket给一个中等规模的美国县的每个居民 大约花费2.4亿美元 零用钱
109change for the tech industry.技术产业的变革。
110It is already showering gifts on communities.它已经在社区里洗礼了
111Still, the backlash shows few signs of abating.然而,反弹显示的减少迹象很少。
112We're going to see the same things happen in 2028, says Daryl West of the Brookings布鲁金斯的达里尔·韦斯特说 2028年我们会看到同样的事情发生
113Institution, a think tank.机构,智库.
114Governors who escape the issue this year will face it in two years' time, he argues, when他辩称,今年逃避这一问题的州长将在两年后面对这个问题。
115they come up for re-election.他们上来竞选连任。
116The politics of data centres is topsy-turvy in other ways, too.数据中心的政治也以其他方式造成精神紊乱。
117The backlash could prove especially awkward for Democrats in Illinois, where trade unions对伊利诺伊州的民主党人来说 反弹可能特别尴尬 工会
118are powerful.很有实力
119Many unions are enthusiastic supporters of data centres.许多工会是数据中心的热情支持者.
120After Mr Pritzker's decision in June, a group of union leaders issued a critical statement.6月普里茨克先生作出决定后,一些工会领导人发表了一份批评性声明。
121The move, they said, will send billions of dollars in investment and thousands of union他们说,这一举动将带来数十亿美元的投资和数千个工会
122jobs to Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio.在印第安纳州、肯塔基州和俄亥俄州工作
123Tim Galooly, a local union official, is even more emphatic.当地工会官员蒂姆·加卢利(Tim Galooly)更具有影响力.
124These data centres are going to be built.这些数据中心即将建成。
125Let's get them built here.让我们把他们建在这里。
126The growing opposition is sand in the wheels of the industry.日益增长的反对是工业轮子中的沙子.
127Sales tax exemptions for computer chips, the biggest cost of building a new data centre,电脑芯片的销售免税 新建数据中心的最大成本
128remain in place in most states, including Texas.包括德克萨斯州在内的大多数州仍然保留着。
129But they have been paused in others, including Arizona and Ohio, or made conditional as in但是,在包括亚利桑那州和俄亥俄州在内的其他国家,它们被暂停,或者被附加条件。
130Pennsylvania.宾夕法尼亚州
131That, along with satisfying local demands, will inevitably increase the cost of new data在满足当地需求的同时,将不可避免地增加新数据的成本。
132centres.中心。
133Even so, a handful of states still wield outsize influence.即便如此,少数国家仍然施加了超出规模的影响。
134Texas alone has more data centres under construction than Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania combined.仅德克萨斯州在建的数据中心就比佐治亚州,亚利桑那州和宾夕法尼亚州加起来还要多.
135Data centre investment may simply flow to more permissive states.数据中心投资可能只是流向更宽容的国家。
136Enough of these data centres are going to find a home in a community willing to work这些数据中心足够了 在一个愿意工作的社区找到家
137with them, in return for the tax revenue and other benefits, says Jack Painter, an energy作为税收和其他好处的回报 Jack Painter说 一种能量
138战略公司Capstone的分析师
139As Mr Trump put it, let data reign.正如特朗普先生所说,让数据占上风。
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