旧金山——亚马逊于10月2日承诺，在五年内为美国承载其数据中心的社区投入超过10亿美元（约13亿新元），成为最新一家寻求赢得居民支持的科技巨头，这些居民对由人工智能推动的建设热潮日益敌视。
SAN FRANCISCO - Amazon on Oct 2 pledged more than US$1 billion (S$1.3 billion) over five years for US communities that host its data centres, the latest tech giant seeking to win over residents increasingly hostile to the AI-fuelled construction boom.
亚马逊云科技（AWS）首席执行官马特·加曼在一篇3000字的博客文章中发布了“共建计划”，该计划将为免费社区大学学位和职业技能培训，以及学校和住宅的节能改造提供资金。
The “Built Together” programme, unveiled by Amazon Web Services chief Matt Garman in a 3,000-word blog post, will fund free community college degrees and trades training as well as energy-efficiency upgrades for schools and homes.
公司还宣布了“数据中心承诺”，承诺其设施不会推高当地电费，并将每年公布能源和用水数据。
The company also announced a “Data Centre Commitment,” promising that its facilities will not drive up local electricity bills and that it will publish annual figures on energy and water use.
加曼表示，AWS将停止在其项目中与政府机构签署保密协议，这一做法已成为反对数据中心运动的主要焦点。微软在3月采取了类似举措，成为首家这样做的大型科技公司。
Garman said AWS would stop using nondisclosure agreements with government agencies on its projects, a practice that has become a major flashpoint for the movement opposing data centres. Microsoft made a similar move in March, the first major tech firm to do so.
加曼将这一建设描述为国家安全当务之急，将其地位比作1950年代的州际公路系统。
Garman cast the buildout as a national security imperative on par with the 1950s interstate highway system.
他警告称，随着全国范围内有超过100项地方暂停令正在考虑中，美国“可能正在为自己在人工智能竞赛中写下失败的剧本”，且“后果将持续数代”。他还针对所谓的数据中心“迷思”发起攻击，驳斥了数据中心推高电力成本、耗尽水资源和导致柴油尾气污染等论点，称这些都是谬误。
He warned that with more than 100 local moratoriums under consideration nationwide, the United States “could be writing its own losing ticket” in the AI race and that “the consequences would last generations.”He also took aim at what he called myths about data centres, disputing as false arguments that they drive up power costs, deplete water supply and cause pollution from diesel fumes.
加曼引用“广泛报道”称，一些国家正故意在美国散布虚假信息以减缓建设进度——这一论点也曾被特朗普政府提出。
Citing “widespread reports,” Garman said some countries were deliberately seeding misinformation in the United States to slow construction – an argument also made by the Trump administration.
虚假信息研究人员和事实核查员表示，此类言论夸大了外国影响力行动在一场跨越政治光谱、波及美国近乎每个州的草根运动中的作用。
Disinformation researchers and fact-checkers say such claims overstate the role of foreign influence campaigns in a grassroots movement that spans the political spectrum and nearly every US state.
唐纳德·特朗普总统是建设的直言不讳的支持者，他警告说，拒绝这些设施的社区“最终会变得落后和贫穷”。亚马逊的竞争对手也做出了类似的提议。
President Donald Trump, a vocal champion of the buildout, has warned that communities rejecting the facilities would “end up being backwards and poor.”Amazon’s rivals have made similar overtures.
今年1月，微软承诺全面承担其数据中心的电力成本，并停止要求当地税收减免，OpenAI承诺其Stargate数据中心不会提高当地电价。
In January, Microsoft pledged to fully cover its data centres’ power costs and stop requesting local tax breaks, and OpenAI promised that its Stargate data centres would not raise local electricity prices.
今年3月，亚马逊、谷歌、Meta、微软、OpenAI、Oracle和xAI签署了一项白宫承诺，为新数据中心提供自己的电力，并支付他们所需的任何电网升级费用。
In March, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle and xAI signed a White House pledge to provide their own power for new data centres and pay for any grid upgrades they require.