据Axios报道，OpenAI、Blackstone、QTS和软银集团已与美国工会合作，共同抵制各州对数据中心建设的禁令。Hans Nichols指出，美国基础设施联盟（American Infrastructure Alliance）计划在2027年与各州及地方官员达成关于数据中心建设的统一标准。
OpenAI, Blackstone, QTS and SoftBank Group have teamed up with US unions to head off state data centre moratoriums, Axios reported on Monday. The American Infrastructure Alliance wants to agree data centre standards with state and local officials in 2027, Hans Nichols wrote.
该联盟将在德克萨斯州、乔治亚州、俄亥俄州、爱荷华州、宾夕法尼亚州、印第安纳州和南卡罗来纳州开展相关宣传活动。Axios称这是一个耗资数百万美元的联合行动。据报道，该联盟的一位发言人向Daily Caller News Foundation表示，这项活动的资金规模高达“八位数”。
The group will start with campaigns in Texas, Georgia, Ohio, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Indiana and South Carolina. Axios called it a multimillion-dollar coalition. A spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation it is a “high eight-figure campaign”.
根据Axios的报道，领导电工工会IBEW的Kenneth Cooper表示：“对必要的基础设施项目实施全面禁令将阻碍经济发展，并威胁到中产阶级的工作机会。”
“Blanket bans on necessary infrastructure projects would set back our economy and threaten good middle-class jobs,” Kenneth Cooper, who leads the electricians’ union IBEW, said, according to Axios.
据Axios报道，另有四个工会已加入该联盟，它们分别是金属板工人工会SMART、隔热材料工人工会、钢铁工人工会以及管道工联合协会。这些工会计划动员成员，向政府官员说明企业能够以负责任的方式建设数据中心。Blackstone公司是数据中心运营商QTS的所有者。
Unions at the front Four more unions have signed up, according to Axios. They are the sheet metal workers’ union SMART, the Heat and Frost Insulators, the Iron Workers and the plumbers’ United Association. The unions plan to rally members to convince officials that companies can build data centres responsibly. Blackstone owns QTS, the data centre operator.
该联盟的官方网站指出，大型能源用户应承担自身基础设施建设的费用，并呼吁与当地社区就噪音控制、照明标准、施工规范以及数据中心与住宅之间的距离等问题达成协议。
The alliance’s website says large energy users should pay for their own infrastructure. It also calls for agreements with communities on noise, lighting, construction and distance from homes.
据Axios报道，QTS的联合首席执行官Tag Greason表示：“实现可持续的发展需要所有相关方都有明确的预期。”
“Responsible growth requires clear expectations for everyone involved,” QTS co-CEO Tag Greason said, according to Axios.
为抵制这些禁令，该联盟在俄亥俄州进行了一项针对800名选民的调查，结果显示：18%的受访者对数据中心建设持积极态度，67%的人持反对意见；近四成受访者反对在自家社区附近建设数据中心。然而，当企业承诺承担基础设施建设费用、创造就业机会并缴纳当地税款时，反对者的比例下降到了34%，支持者的比例上升到了60%。
The backlash it wants to head off The group’s own Ohio poll of 800 voters found 18% viewed data centres favourably and 67% unfavourably. Nearly three in four opposed one near their community. Support rose to 60% against 34% when companies pledged to cover infrastructure costs, create jobs and pay local taxes.
一些州已经采取了行动：纽约州于7月暂停了新的数据中心建设项目；德克萨斯州州长Greg Abbott在8月停止了新的数据中心审批程序；宾夕法尼亚州的Josh Shapiro也在同月签署了相关法规，以加强对数据中心建设的监管。
Several states have already moved. New York froze new data centres for a year in July. Texas Governor Greg Abbott halted new approvals in August. Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro signed an order to tighten the rules the same month.
雅培公司的新闻发言人安德鲁·马哈莱里斯向《Daily Caller News Foundation》提出了自己的要求：数据中心必须自行承担电力基础设施的建设费用，同时必须自行解决用水问题，并且必须降低德克萨斯州居民的用电成本。
Abbott’s press secretary, Andrew Mahaleris, set out his conditions to the Daily Caller News Foundation. Data centres must pay for their own electric infrastructure, add power and reuse their own water, he said. They must also cut electricity costs for Texans.
“实施这项禁令的目的是为了进行彻底的研究，以确定这个行业是否能够被安全地监管起来，”食品与水资源监督组织（Food & Water Watch）的米奇·琼斯对《Daily Caller》表示。
“The point of a moratorium is to allow for rigorous study to determine if this industry can ever be regulated safely,” Mitch Jones of Food & Water Watch told the Daily Caller.