华盛顿10月2日电：亚马逊云计算部门周五表示，将在未来五年内向其设有数据中心的美国社区投资超过10亿美元，并承诺解决这些设施对电力和水资源使用带来的影响。
WASHINGTON, Oct 2 : Amazon's cloud computing division said on Friday it would invest more than $1 billion over the next five years in US communities where it has data centers and vowed to tackle their impacts on electricity and water usage.
数据中心为训练和运行人工智能模型提供算力，但因电力需求、公用事业成本及其他地方性影响，在全国范围内引发了社区的反对。
Data centers, which provide the computing power to train and run AI models, have drawn opposition in communities nationwide over concerns about electricity demand, utility costs and other local impacts. The backlash poses a political challenge for Republicans heading into the US midterm elections on November 3.
亚马逊表示，2011年至2025年间已在数据中心投资2760亿美元，并在印第安纳州、路易斯安那州、北卡罗来纳州、弗吉尼亚州和密西西比州等地有大型项目或扩建计划。
Amazon said it had invested $276 billion in data centers between 2011 and 2025 and had large projects or expansions in the works in many states including Indiana, Louisiana, North Carolina, Virginia and Mississippi.
亚马逊云科技（AWS）表示，此次宣布的社区投资计划将涵盖教育、职业培训、能源负担能力、水资源和能源保护以及其他地方优先事项。
Amazon Web Services said the community investment plans announced on Friday would include spending on education, job training, energy affordability, water and energy preservation and other local priorities in parts of the US where it has data centers.
该公司在一份长篇声明中试图反驳有关数据中心环境、能源和经济影响的批评，并指出全国各地正在考虑中的数据中心暂停令已超过100项。
The company in a lengthy statement sought to rebut criticism of data centers tied to environmental, energy and economic impacts and noted there were more than 100 data center moratoriums being considered across the country.
AWS首席执行官马特·加曼（Matt Garman）表示，数据中心建设具有紧迫性，因为人工智能对经济和国家安全至关重要。
"There is urgency to this data center buildout because we aren’t the only country that sees the benefits of AI for the economy and national security, and the countries that lead in AI will shape it and get the most from it," AWS CEO Matt Garman said.
此外，AWS还承诺到2030年实现数据中心水资源正效益，即向社区回馈的水量超过其使用量，目前已完成该目标的75%。
AWS also committed to being water positive across its data centers by 2030 by returning more water to communities than it uses and said it was 75 per cent of the way toward its goal.