数字未来已经到来，并正在迪岑巴赫镇逐步实现。谷歌、EdgeConnex和Maincubes分别是两家美国科技公司和一家德国公司，三家公司均已在美因河畔法兰克福附近这座小镇预留了建设数据中心的用地。迪岑巴赫是法兰克福机场附近的物流枢纽，拥有3.5万人口。
The digital future is here, and it is unfolding in the town of Dietzenbach. Google EdgeConnex, and Maincubes, two US tech companies and one German, have each reserved a spot for a data center in the small town near Frankfurt am Main. Dietzenbach is a logistics hub near Frankfurt's airport, and home to 35,000 people.
法兰克福地区是德国金融业中心，也是全球最具吸引力的云服务运营地点之一。随着算力需求持续增长，该地区还将规划更多数据中心。
The Frankfurt region, the center of Germany's financial industry, is one of the most attractive locations for digital cloud operators worldwide, and as demand for computing capacity continues to grow, more centers are planned for the region.
当地居民担忧电力和用水问题。然而，第四座超大型数据中心的建设计划遭到了当地居民的反对。数据中心内成排的数万台计算机需要大量能源才能全天候运行。它们会散发大量热量，需要进行冷却，而这又需要消耗巨量水资源。
Locals worry about electricity and water usage However, the news of plans for a fourth mega data center has been met with resistance by locals. The stacks of tens of thousands of computers in a data center need a high supply of energy to run around the clock. They radiate large amounts of heat and need cooling, which requires huge quantities of water.
《德国之声》（DW）采访的迪岑巴赫居民担心，水费和电费将上涨，镇上的气温也会升高。
The people of Dietzenbach DW met were worried about their water and electricity bills rising, as well as a higher temperature in their town.
迪岑巴赫居民威廉·绍尔指着EdgeConnex数据中心耸立的四座烟囱说：“我们想知道两件事：这会为迪岑巴赫当地社区带来哪些好处？又会对环境产生哪些影响？”
"We want to know two things: What are the benefits for the local community here in Dietzenbach? And what are the environmental impacts?" said Dietzenbach resident Wilhelm Sauer, pointing at the four imposing chimneys rising from the EdgeConnex data center.
他和其他当地活动人士认为，数据中心给区域资源带来的负担，未必能因新增岗位数量有限而得到抵偿。
He and the other local activists believe that the toll the data centers will take on regional resources may not be offset by the limited number of new jobs announced.
不过，中左翼社会民主党（SPD）人士、迪岑巴赫镇镇长迪特尔·朗持乐观态度。他预测，谷歌数据中心将为当地带来约100个“高价值岗位”。
Dietzenbach's mayor, Dieter Lang of the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), however, is optimistic. He predicted that around 100 "high-value jobs" would come to his town through the Google data center.
他还预计，该项目将增加当地政府的财政收入：“我们预计会获得相当可观的税收贡献。”朗告诉《德国之声》。
He also expects it will benefit his city's coffers: "We expect a substantial tax contribution," Lang told DW.
不过，魏森鲍姆研究所社区数据中心研究员塔拉·梅尔克对此持怀疑态度。她认为，对于美国企业运营的数据中心，德国可能很难获得多少税收收入，“因为利润可能在其他地方纳税。”“尤其是考虑到大型科技公司——它们可不会在迪岑巴赫报税。”她告诉德国之声（DW）。新的人工智能数据中心将建在哪里？
But Tara Merk, researcher on Community Data Centers at the Weizenbaum Institute, is skeptical: She believes Germany can probably expect little revenue from data centers operated by US companies, "because the profits may be taxed elsewhere." "Especially thinking about big tech companies — they're not going to be doing their taxes in Dietzenbach," she told DW. Where will the next AI data centers go?
要观看此视频，请考虑升级至支持 HTML5 视频的网页浏览器。数据中心与信息匮乏。2026年8月，德国政府启动了一套数据中心登记名录，列出已运营数据中心的能源消耗、用水量及能效措施。
To view this video, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Data centers and lack of information In August 2026, the German government launched a data centers registry listing energy consumption, water consumption, and energy efficiency measures for the data centers that are already operating. But the list includes only around 300 data centers, far fewer than the estimated 2,000 data centers the government says are running across the country.
但该名录仅收录了约300座数据中心，远少于政府所称全国正在运行的约2000座数据中心。
"Some companies report their smaller projects but not the big ones," Werner Neumann, board member of the environmental group BUND, told DW.
“有些企业会申报规模较小的项目，却不会申报大型项目。”环保组织BUND董事会维尔纳·诺伊曼告诉德国之声（DW）。
There is no official overview of how many data centers are being built or where. The civil society project Heisse Luft (Hot Air) has decided to fill these information gap, and has developed an online map of the planned data centers across Germany.
目前没有官方概览说明有多少数据中心正在建设或建在何处。公民社会项目“Heisse Luft”（热空气）决定填补这一信息空白，并制作了一张标注德国各地拟建数据中心的在线地图。地图每天都会根据当地社区提供的众包信息进行更新。
The map is updated every day with information based on crowdsourcing from local communities. "Theoretically, we should have access to this information," Tiziana von Witzleben, co-founder of the Heisse Luft initiative, told DW.
“理论上，我们本应能够获取这些信息。”Heisse Luft项目联合创始人蒂齐iana·冯·茨莱本告诉德国之声（DW），“也许德国政府没有能力收集并公布这些信息。但我相信，这是有意为之，尤其是谷歌和亚马逊等大型企业。众所周知，它们对自己的所作所为守口如瓶。因为它们知道，一旦告诉公众，就会引发大量抗议。”与美国曾通过一场全国性运动在全境组织抗议不同，德国针对数据中心的抗议仍只是地方社区层面的现象。
"Maybe the German government doesn't have the capacity to [collect this information] and share it. But I believe it is on purpose, particularly [on the part of] big players like Google and Amazon. [They] are known to be very secretive about what they do. Because they know that if they tell people, they will get a lot of protest." Unlike in the US where a nationwide movement mobilized protests all over the country, protests against data centers in Germany remain a local community phenomenon.
2月，据当地日报报道，法兰克福地区大格劳地方议会否决了美国运营商提出的一座耗资25亿欧元（28亿美元）的数据中心项目，至少部分原因是居民担心数据中心产生大量余热，并为此进行了大规模抗议。
In February, the local council of Groß-Gerau in the Frankfurt region voted against a €2.5-billion ($2.8 billion) data center proposed by a US operator, at least partly as a result of massive protests from the residents wary of heat waste, the daily reported.
在该地区另一座城镇迈恩塔尔，EdgeConnex一座超大型数据中心因其计划自建燃气发电厂而遭遇激烈抗议。这个耗资10亿欧元的项目目前正在寻找替代供电方案，而该地区的电网容量已接近上限。
In Maintal, another town in the region, an EdgeConnex mega data center faced intense protest against its plans to build its own gas-fired power plant. The €1-billion project is now searching for power alternatives in a region which is already hitting its grid limits.
算力竞赛：德国是欧洲最大的数据中心市场，无论按容量还是站点数量衡量都占据首位；包括迪岑巴赫在内的法兰克福—莱茵-美因地区拥有全国三分之一以上的数据中心总容量。
The race for computational power Germany is the largest data center market in Europe, both by capacity and number of sites, and the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main region, which includes Dietzenbach, holds over a third of the country's total data center capacity.
毗邻法兰克福的商业互联网交换中心（DE-CIX）基础设施，使该地区对数字云运营商颇具吸引力。
Its proximity to the Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) infrastructure in Frankfurt makes the region attractive for digital cloud operators.
为实现到2030年将数据中心容量翻倍的战略目标，由中右翼基督教民主联盟（基民盟，CDU）和社民党组成的联邦政府提议修订监管能源消费和气候保护的《能源效率法》（EnEfG）。
To achieve its strategic goal of doubling data center capacity by 2030, the federal government, a coalition of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the SPD, has proposed amending the Energy Efficiency Act (EnEfG) that regulates energy consumption and climate protection.
环保主义政党绿党质疑这些目标是否以真实需求为基础。另一方面，社会主义性质的左翼党对整体扩张也持怀疑态度。两党都反对政府为吸引更多数据中心而放宽相关规定的计划。
The environmentalist Green Party questions whether the targets are based on real demand. The socialist Left Party on the other hand, is skeptical of the expansion as a whole. Both parties oppose the government's plans to relax the rules to attract more data centers.
在政治光谱的另一端，极右翼的德国选择党支持扩大数据中心规模，但批评通过法律推动使用可再生能源为其供电。欧洲寻求数字自主：为何修订能源效率法引发争议？
On the opposite end of the political spectrum, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) supports the expansion of data centers but criticizes the law promoting the use of renewable energy to power them.
拟议修法将推迟运营商达到可再生能源目标的期限，并放宽余热再利用要求。
Europe's quest for digital independence Why are energy efficiency amendments controversial?
尽管有此项计划，塔拉·梅尔克仍认为，德国推动建设节能型数据中心的举措在全球范围内具有示范意义。
The proposed amendment would push back the deadline for operators to achieve renewable energy targets, and would relax requirements for the reuse of heat waste.
但她对法律中拟赋予企业权利的相关条款提出批评，这些条款允许企业宣称其用水量和用电量的数据属于商业秘密。
Despite this plan, Tara Merk still considers the push for energy-efficient data centers in Germany to be a progressive example in the global context.
她告诉德国之声（DW）：“这项拟议修正案使监管格局发生了巨大变化，运营机构获益良多。要实施监管和干预，并在当地社区建立信任和接受度，就必须拥有可靠的数据。”梅尔克警告说：“我认为，[透明度不足]最终会加剧数据中心与当地社区之间的对立，使运营机构更难扩建数据中心，甚至更难按原有方式维持现有设施的运营。”
But she is critical of the parts of the law that would give companies the right to declare that the data on the amount of water and electricity they use are trade secrets. "This proposed amendment shifts the regulatory landscape very much in favor of operators," she told DW. "Having good data is needed to regulate, intervene, and build trust and acceptance within local communities."
人工智能监督机构算法观察在的一份公开声明中表示，政府拟进行的法律修改并非为了削减官僚程序，而主要是为了安抚美国科技巨头微软、谷歌和Vantage。
"I think [lack of transparency] is ultimately going to foster more antagonism between data centers and local communities, making it harder for operators to expand or even keep their existing sites running the way they are," Merk warned.
算法观察表示：“德国和欧洲的运营商大多对现行规定没有异议。这些修正案与政府 strengthening German/European firms 的目标背道而驰。” Strengthening Chinese accidentally left. Need only translated, no English aside names. "加强德国和欧洲企业自身竞争力的目标背道而驰". This summer sentence same p.今年夏天，该监督机构发起了一项行动，收集了15万个反对法律修正案的签名，呼吁保留数据中心公开报告的义务。
Algorithm Watch, an AI watchdog, argued in a public statement that the legal changes the government is proposing are not about cutting bureaucracy, but more about appeasing US tech giants Microsoft, Google, and Vantage. "German and European operators mostly have no problem with the current rules," Algorithm Watch said. "The amendments run counter to the government's own aim of strengthening German/European firms," This summer, the watchdog launched a campaign and collected 150,000 signatures against the amendments to the law, calling for the public reporting obligations of data centers to be retained.
这些修正案于9月提交德国联邦议院。如果新法律通过，政府希望其能于1月生效。
The amendments were presented to the Bundestag in September. If the new law passes, the government hopes it will take effect in January.