特朗普总统表示，他不确定是否愿意在自家后院建设数据中心。“我希望拥有数据中心，”特朗普在周四发表的《时代》杂志 专访中表示。“这并不意味着我想让它们紧挨着我家，但我当然希望它们设在我所在的县里。”特朗普一再为数据中心及更广泛的AI产业的益处辩护，而民调显示公众普遍持怀疑态度。共和党州长也开始限制对数据中心的激励措施。
President Donald Trump says he isn't sure he would want a data center in his backyard. "I would like to have data centers," Trump told Time Magazine as part of a cover story interview published on Thursday. "It doesn't mean I want them right next to my house, but certainly I like them in my county." Trump has repeatedly defended the benefits of data centers and the AI industry more broadly, as polling shows widespread public skepticism. Republican governors have also begun to rein in incentives for data centers.
特朗普称，不欢迎数据中心的社区，也就错失了潜在的丰厚税收。和以往一样，总统将反对数据中心建设的社区描绘为错误且贫困的。“如果你想穷，想没钱，如果你不想要工作，如果你想生活在犯罪横行、贫民窟般的地区，以及随之而来的一切，你就不应该建数据中心，”他说。
Communities that don't welcome data centers, Trump said, are also passing up on potentially lucrative tax revenue. As he has before, the president portrayed communities that oppose data center development as wrong and impoverished. "If you want to be poor, you want to have no money, if you don't want to have a job, and if you want to live in a crime-infested area, squalor, all the things that go along with it, you should not have a data center," he said.
随着对数据中心的反弹情绪日益高涨，一些AI和科技领袖开始考虑其他方式，以提供训练和运行尖端AI模型所需的算力。SpaceX首席执行官埃隆·马斯克正在推进轨道数据中心。OpenAI首席执行官山姆·奥特曼曾建议数据中心更适合建在沙漠中。周二，在白宫欢迎AI高管时，特朗普对记者表示，随着居民看到合作给社区带来的好处，数据中心将变得“非常受欢迎”。
Amid the growing backlash against data centers, some AI and tech leaders have begun considering other ways to supply the compute they need to train and then run cutting-edge AI models. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is pursuing orbital data centers. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has suggested data centers are better suited for deserts. As he welcomed AI executives to the White House on Tuesday, Trump told reporters that data centers would become "very popular" as residents see what their cooperation will bring to their communities.
“它们会让社区感到高兴，”特朗普说。“这可能意味着提供石油和天然气。可能意味着提供教育。可能意味着在经济上帮助教师，帮助民众。”特朗普描述道，在某些情况下，数据中心可以“紧挨着一个人的房子”，弗吉尼亚州劳登县的部分居民正面临这一现实。
"They're going to make the community happy," Trump said. "That might be supplying oil and gas. It might be supplying education. It may be helping teachers along financially, helping people along financially." Trump described how, in some cases, a data center can be "right next to a guy's house," a reality some residents in Loudoun County, Virginia, face.
劳顿县是著名的“数据中心走廊”所在地，曾允许许多数据中心凭权建设，其中一些甚至靠近居民区。2025年，县监事会终止了新数据中心的凭权审批。新提案现在必须经过包括公开听证会在内的审查流程。特朗普在其所在县建设数据中心的希望也变得复杂。上周，棕榈滩县监事会一致批准了一项为期一年的大型数据中心建设暂停令。据WPTV报道，在投票前，委员们否决了一项超大规模数据中心的建设方案。该地点此前获批的一个较小规模数据中心方案预计将继续推进。
Loudoun County, home to the famed "Data Center Alley," once allowed many data centers to be built by right, including some near residential neighborhoods. In 2025, county supervisors ended by-right approvals for new data centers. New proposals must now go through a review process that includes public hearings, among other steps. Trump's hope for a data center in his county is also complicated. Last week, the Palm Beach County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a one-year moratorium on the construction of large-scale data centers. Before the vote, the commissioners rejected a proposed plan for a hyperscale data center, WPTV reported. A smaller data center plan for the site, which was previously approved, is expected to proceed.