紐約州建議地方政府向資料中心爭取每百萬瓦100萬美元社區投資

記者賈斯珀・沃德By Jasper Ward

9月15日（路透社）——根據週二發布的一份文件，紐約州州長凱西・霍楚建議，地方政府應向擬興建新資料中心的開發商，爭取每百萬瓦至少100萬美元的社區投資。Sept 15 (Reuters) - New York Governor Kathy Hochul is recommending that local governments seek community investments of at least $1 million per megawatt from developers proposing new data centers, according to a document released on Tuesday.

數月前，紐約成為美國第一個對大型新資料中心實施暫停令的州；霍楚在此後提出這些建議。Her recommendations come months after New York became the first U.S. state to impose a moratorium on large new data centers.

根據該文件，建議每百萬瓦公用事業用電需求至少投入100萬美元，將有助於興建資料中心的社區「公平分享這些計畫所創造的長期經濟價值」。The suggested investments of at least $1 million for every megawatt of utility demand would help communities where the data centers are built "share equitably in the long-term economic value created by these projects," according to the document.

全球最大資料中心開發商之一的亞馬遜、Meta，以及Alphabet旗下Google的發言人，未立即回應媒體詢問。微軟拒絕評論。Spokespeople from Amazon, Meta and Alphabet's Google, among the world's largest data center developers, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Microsoft declined to comment.

「創新經濟對資料中心日益增加的需求，必須搭配共同標準，確保社區受益，」帝國州發展公司（Empire State Development）總裁霍普・奈特（Hope Knight）在聲明中表示。"The innovation economy's growing demand for data centers must be matched by shared standards that ensure communities benefit," Empire State Development President Hope Knight said in a statement.

「由於資料中心並非地方主要就業創造者，其經濟發展特性不同於傳統製造業。」"Because data centers are not major local job generators, their economic development profile differs from traditional manufacturing."

資料中心在美國的擴張推升全國許多地區的電力需求與電費，並引發地方及跨黨派政治反彈。The expansion of data centers in the United States is driving up power demand and electricity bills in large swaths of the country, drawing ⁠local and bipartisan political backlash.

共和黨籍德州州長葛瑞格・艾伯特（Greg Abbott）主政的地區，是全球人工智慧基礎設施成長最快的地區之一；他週一指示州監管機關，處罰未揭露用水細節的資料中心。Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican leading one of the world's fastest-growing regions for artificial intelligence infrastructure, directed state ‌regulators on Monday to penalize data centers that fail to disclose details about their water consumption.

根據路透社／益普索近期民調，只有三分之一的美國人贊成資料中心快速興建，多數人則會反對在自己的社區興建資料中心。Only one in three Americans approve of the fast pace of data center construction and most would oppose building one in their own community, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll.

根據美國聯邦眾議院議長麥克・強生（Mike Johnson）的發言人，美國聯邦眾議院共和黨籍議員計畫提出法案，試圖抑制與資料中心擴張有關的電費上漲。Republican lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives plan to bring legislation that seeks to rein in electricity bill increases tied to data center expansion, according to a spokesperson for House Speaker Mike Johnson.

美國數十個州的州議會已提出類似法案。Legislatures in dozens of U.S. states have introduced similar bills.

（賈斯珀・沃德華盛頓報導；唐娜・布萊森與索納莉・保羅編輯）(Reporting by Jasper Ward in Washington; editing by Donna Bryson and Sonali Paul)