随着人工智能（AI）热潮的兴起，美国各地数据中心的广泛涌现正在引发全国居民的强烈抵触，这些居民饱受这些计算枢纽带来的环境影响，主要表现为水资源枯竭或浑浊以及持续的噪声污染。
The widespread emergence of data centers across the US amid the artificial intelligence (AI) boom is sparking massive backlash from residents nationwide, who suffer from the environmental impact of these computational hubs, primarily in the form of depleted or muddied water resources and constant noise pollution.
生活在数据中心附近的社区居民报告称，水压突然下降，植被枯萎，自来水因含有泥沙而变成棕色。
Communities living near data centers report sudden drops in water pressure, withering vegetation and tap water running brown with sediment.
贝弗利·莫里斯（Beverly Morris）和杰夫·莫里斯（Jeff Morris）夫妇住在佐治亚州Meta公司斯坦顿斯普林斯（Stanton Springs）数据中心不到100英尺的地方，他们是8月份对这家科技巨头提起诉讼的四户家庭之一。他们声称，建设开始后，井中积聚了泥沙，水压下降，导致自来水无法饮用。
Beverly and Jeff Morris, who live less than 100 feet from Meta’s Stanton Springs data center in Georgia, are among four families who filed a lawsuit against the tech giant in August, claiming sediment accumulated in their wells and water pressure dropped after construction began, rendering tap water undrinkable.
提起诉讼的四户家庭表示，大量的砍伐树木和挖掘工作破坏了储存地下水的含水层，导致泥沙和沉淀物混入了他们的水井中。
The four families filing the lawsuit say the extensive cutting of trees and excavation damaged the aquifer that stores groundwater, mixing silt and sediment into their wells.
Meta公司在对该场地进行水文地质研究后辩称，该数据中心不太可能引发这些问题，并声称该设施在运营过程中并不使用地下水。
Meta argued that the data center is unlikely to have caused these problems after a hydrogeological study of the grounds, claiming the facility does not use groundwater in its operations.
一场类似的纠纷正在弗吉尼亚州路易莎县上演，这里距离佐治亚州的这几户家庭不到500英里。
A similar dispute is unfolding in Virginia’s Louisa County, less than 500 miles north of the Georgia families.
奥斯汀·纽瑟姆（Austin Newsom）的家正对面就坐落着一个亚马逊数据中心。他称，就在2025年3月施工开始后不久，他家里的自来水开始变黄发褐，而现场使用的重型机械和挖掘设备引发了巨大的震动，导致他家的墙壁出现裂缝。
An Amazon data center is located directly across from the home of Austin Newsom, who alleges that shortly after construction began in March 2025, his tap water started running brown, while the heavy machinery and excavation equipment used on the site caused massive vibrations, cracking the walls of his home.
他还表示，该设施造成了持续的道路积水、刺眼的光污染以及不断的工业噪声，彻底毁了他们的生活质量。
He also says the facility caused persistent road flooding, intrusive light pollution and constant industrial noise, ruining his quality of life.
与此同时，悉尼大学近期发布的一份报告发现，数据中心产生的能源消耗和碳排放可能导致全球气温升高，进而影响蜜蜂。报告警告称，即使是热天数量的轻微增加，也可能扰乱蜜蜂的繁殖周期并降低精子质量，每年可能导致多达1410万只蜜蜂灭绝。
Meanwhile, a recent University of Sydney report found that the energy consumption and carbon emissions generated by data centers could raise global temperatures, affecting bees. The report warned that even a marginal increase in hot days could disrupt breeding cycles and degrade sperm quality, possibly causing up to 14.1 million bees to go extinct every year.
美国国家航空航天局喷气推进实验室（JPL）的研究员斯拉瓦·G·图尔谢夫（Slava G. Turyshev）向阿纳多卢通讯社表示，预计未来五年内全球电力需求将几乎翻倍，这反过来将需要在各地建设更多设施，并使用不同类型的燃料，例如“石油、木炭或核能”。
Slava G. Turyshev, a researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), told Anadolu that global electricity demand is expected to nearly double in the next half-decade, which in turn will require the construction of more facilities in various locations, running on different types of fuel, such as “oil, charcoal, or nuclear.”
他说：“人们看到自己社区附近出现大型仓库，里面装着计算机、处理器和芯片，这些设备将产生某种计算能力，使训练大型语言模型（LLMs）或其他任务成为可能，对此并不高兴。人们对此感到不满，因此现实情况是，我们不想在我们居住的社区建设大型仓库，于是就有了这样的想法：为什么不把它们搬到太空去呢？”图尔谢夫指出，将数据中心基础设施迁移到地球轨道正被认真评估为保护环境所必需的一步。
“People are not happy seeing in their neighborhood, significant warehouses which will host computers, processors, chips that will produce sort of computational capabilities, enable computational capabilities to train large language models (LLMs) or whatever,” he said. “People are not happy with that, and so the reality is that we don't want to build large warehouses in the communities where we live, and so the idea: why don’t we move them to space?”Turyshev stated that relocating data center infrastructure into Earth’s orbit is being seriously evaluated as a necessary step to protect the environment.
战略与国际研究中心（CSIS）航空航天安全项目副主管克莱顿·斯沃普（Clayton Swope）向阿纳多卢通讯社表示，环境保护是建立基于太空的数据中心的主要驱动力。
Clayton Swope, deputy director of the Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), told Anadolu that environmental preservation is the main driver of efforts to establish space-based data centers.
他警告称，如果数据中心在轨道上建立，环境关切可能会呈现出全新的维度。
He warned that environmental concerns could take on a whole new dimension if data centers were to be established in orbit.
他说：“关于在太空建设数据中心的担忧看起来非常不同——更像是我们今天谈论轨道上数千颗卫星时的担忧，即交通协调问题。”
“The concerns that you would have about doing data centers in space look very different — more like the same concerns you have when we’re talking about thousands of satellites in orbit today, about traffic coordination,” he said.
“还有关于轨道碎片产生的问题。太空中发生碰撞会怎样，或者航天器在太空中停止工作会怎样，它现在是否会成为碎片危险源——如果卫星发生故障并产生碎片会怎样，”他补充道。
“And about the creation of debris in orbit. What happens when there's a collision in space, or what happens when a spacecraft stops working in space, does it become now a debris hazard — what happens if there’s a malfunction on a satellite and that creates debris,” he added.
斯沃普表示，交通管理和协调是运营层面的问题，但如果发射入轨的卫星比现在多出数千甚至数百万颗，这些问题可能会显著加剧。
Swope stated that traffic management and coordination are operational issues, but these problems could grow significantly if thousands or even millions more satellites are launched into orbit than there are today.
“这就是SpaceX提出的方案，一个由一百万颗卫星组成的星座，用于在轨道上进行AI计算，这比我们目前在太空中的卫星数量有着巨大的增加，而我提出的那些问题将会变得比我们需要考虑的更加严重，”他指出。
“That's what SpaceX is proposing, a constellation of a million satellites to do AI compute in orbit, a huge increase than the number of satellites we have in space, and those issues that I raised would just grow greater than we need to think about,” he noted.