即将到来的中期选举结果是否会受到人工智能的影响，这取决于选民的选择。
It's up to voters whether artificial intelligence will play a role in the outcome of the coming midterm elections.
人工智能的蓬勃发展及其所需的基础设施正逐渐成为美国政治的焦点。
The AI boom — and the infrastructure needed to power it — has slowly become a flashpoint in US politics.
相关讨论涉及人工智能的安全性、监管措施、深度伪造技术以及数据中心的快速扩张。
The debate ranges from AI safety, regulation, and deepfakes to the rapid expansion of data centers.
众多大型科技企业呼吁加快数据中心建设，而当地居民则因担心其对环境和能源成本的影响而反对相关项目。
Many Big Tech firms advocate for faster expansion, while local residents have pushed back against data-center projects over their potential environmental and energy-cost impacts.
选民们面临的关键问题包括：州政府和联邦政府应在人工智能监管中发挥怎样的作用？当地社区又应拥有多大权力来管控建在自家附近的这些数据中心？
One big question for voters: What roles should state and federal governments play in regulating AI? Another is how much power local communities should have over the data centers increasingly being built in their backyards.
今年共有17位州长面临连任选举，他们来自不同政治阵营，对人工智能热潮的态度也各不相同。
Governors across the political spectrum — 17 of whom are up for reelection this year — have taken varied approaches to the AI boom.
全美36个州及3个领地共计39场州长选举将于11月3日举行。
All 39 gubernatorial races, across 36 states and three territories, are on November 3.
加利福尼亚州州长加文·纽森（民主党）和纽约州州长凯西·霍楚尔（民主党）正在研究在极端情况下强制关闭先进人工智能系统的机制。
Some governors, including California's Gavin Newsom (D) and New York's Kathy Hochul (D), are exploring an AI "kill switch" that would disable advanced AI systems in an out-of-control event.
犹他州共和党州长斯宾塞·考克斯也呼吁制定联邦级的人工智能安全规则。
Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has also called for federal AI safety rules.
另一方面，内华达州、北达科他州的共和党州长，以及密歇根州和新墨西哥州的民主党州长——这些州内均有大型人工智能计算项目正在建设——则视数据中心为重要的经济发展机遇。
Others, including the Republican governors of Nevada and North Dakota and the Democratic governors of Michigan and New Mexico — whose states have major AI-computing projects under construction — see data centers as an economic opportunity.
以下为美国各州州长目前就人工智能、数据中心或两者发表的立场与观点。
Here's what every US governor has said so far about AI, data centers, or both.