芝加哥联邦储备银行行长奥斯坦·古尔斯比表示，上月发布的通胀压力呈全面蔓延态势的报告令人担忧，他还警告称，人工智能相关基础设施的大规模建设可能导致经济过热。
Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee said a report showing broad-based inflationary pressures last month was worrisome, and warned the buildout of infrastructure related to artificial intelligence may be overheating the economy.
“这份报告让我感到沮丧，”古尔斯比周三在接受雅虎财经采访时这样评价当天早些时候发布的消费者价格指数报告。
“I found it discouraging,” Goolsbee said Wednesday in an interview on Yahoo Finance about a consumer price index report released earlier Wednesday.
根据美国劳工统计局周三公布的数据，9月份美国消费者物价涨幅创下五个月来的新高。剔除食品和能源价格后的核心通胀指标则上升了0.3%。
US consumer prices rose in September at the fastest pace in five months, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics published Wednesday. A key measure of underlying price pressures, which excludes food and energy, was up 0.3%.
古尔斯比指出，服务业通胀持续居高不下，说明物价上涨现象并不仅限于受关税、伊朗局势等供给端冲击影响的商品类别。
Goolsbee said persistent services inflation showed the increase was not limited to categories affected by supply shocks, including tariffs and the Iran war.
由于担心不提高借贷成本便难以将通胀率拉回2%的目标水平，美联储官员上月决定加息。根据9月份会议后发布的中位预测值，多数政策制定者认为今年可能还需再加息一次。从期货市场价格走势来看，投资者普遍认为美联储将于12月再度加息。
Fed officials raised interest rates last month amid concerns it would take longer to return inflation to their 2% target without higher borrowing costs. A majority of policymakers estimated that one more rate hike would likely be needed this year, according to median projections released after the September meeting. Investors see it likely policymakers will raise rates again in December, according to pricing in futures contracts.
古尔斯比称，目前尚难断定当前的利率水平是否足以实现通胀控制目标。他补充道，如今他更担心的是为支撑人工智能发展而大规模建设的数据中心及相关投资正导致经济过热。
Goolsbee said it’s still too soon to know whether interest rates are high enough at this point to deliver on that inflation goal. He added that he’s now more concerned that the buildout of data centers to power artificial intelligence, and investment in AI, are overheating the economy.
“必须防止经济出现过热现象，因为一旦需求端出现过热趋势，这种状况往往会长期持续且难以扭转，”古尔斯比说道。
“You must prevent the build up of overheating because if you get overheating buildup on the demand side, that tends to be very persistent and hard to get rid of,” Goolsbee said.