为什么重要：汽油、柴油和电力的价格在一些最激烈的国会控制权竞争中发挥着重要作用。
Scratch the surface of the year's biggest stories — the Iran war and— and both are bound up in the costs of energy Why it matters:
- 几个月来，战争使汽油价格一直保持在每加仑4美元以上，并将柴油推至历史新高。·无论公平与否，数据中心都被归咎于电价上涨。
Prices for gasoline, diesel and power are playing a prominent role in some of the tightest races for control of Congress. • The war has kept gasoline prices way above $4 per gallon for months, and helped push diesel to record highs. • Fairly or unfairly, data centers are getting blamed for rising electricity prices.
- 随着负担能力更广泛地成为全国竞选的首要议程，这一切都在展开。
• It's all unfolding as affordability more broadly tops the agenda in races nationwide. Here's a look at how
看看如何 能源政治正在五场关键竞争中展开……参议院
energy politics are playing out in five critical contests... Senate
密歇根州。过去一年，金刚狼州的电价上涨速度超过了全国平均水平，数据中心在民主党初选初期就出现了，并在激烈的大选竞选中保持了突出地位。
Michigan. Power prices climbed faster than the national average over the past year in the Wolverine state, and data centers surfaced early in the Democratic primary and stayed prominent in the tight general election race.
- 前共和党众议员迈克·罗杰斯的竞选活动表明，共和党候选人愿意在能源和人工智能方面与特朗普总统分道扬镳，或者至少领先于他。
• Former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers' campaign shows how Republican hopefuls are willing to split with President Trump on energy and AI — or at least get ahead of him.
罗杰斯在8月份呼吁暂停数据中心一年。他还呼吁在9月暂时禁止柴油出口，特朗普随后提出了这个想法，但后来放弃了。
• Rogers called for a one-year moratorium on data centers in August. And he called for a temporary ban on diesel exports in September, an idea Trump then flirted with but backed off.
- 在民主党方面，如果说阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德（Abdul El-Sayed）1月份的数据中心“参与条款”看起来很熟悉，那是因为它反映了民主党在社区购买和清洁能源方面越来越普遍的观点。俄亥俄州人工智能对电力的贪婪胃口加剧了共和党参议员乔恩·赫斯特德和民主党人谢罗德·布朗之间的冲突。
• On the Democratic side, if Abdul El-Sayed's January "terms of engagement" for data centers looks familiar, it's because it reflects an increasingly common Democratic view around community buy-in and clean energy. Ohio. AI's voracious appetite for electricity is fueling the clash between Republican Sen. Jon Husted and Democrat Sherrod Brown.
Husted认为，数据中心-而不是家庭-应该为服务它们所需的新发电厂和电网基础设施付费。他发起的一项旨在实现这一目标的法案在众议院以压倒性多数通过后，在参议院未能通过。
• Husted has made the case that data centers — not households — should pay for the new power plants and grid infrastructure needed to serve them. A bill he sponsored aimed at doing that fell short in the Senate after passing the House overwhelmingly.
- 布朗正在攻击赫斯特德之前支持数据中心和税收优惠政策，以吸引他们到俄亥俄州。
• Brown is attacking Husted for previously championing data centers and tax incentives to attract them to Ohio.
- 这场争论凸显了人工智能热潮背后一个更广泛的问题：推动人工智能发展所需的巨大基础设施建设费用，究竟该由谁来承担？
• The fight encapsulates a broader question surrounding the AI boom: Who should pay for the massive buildout needed to power it? Alaska.
阿拉斯加。伊朗战争正使能源价格成为共和党参议员丹·沙利文与民主党人玛丽·佩尔托拉之间竞选角逐中的一个关键议题。
The Iran war is turning energy prices into a potent issue in the race between Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan and Democrat Mary Peltola.
- 在农村社区，燃料价格本就远高于美国本土48州，部分地区汽油价格甚至高达每加仑10美元。佩尔托拉将燃料价格上涨直接归咎于沙利文对战争的支持，认为柴油价格飙升正重创渔民和普通家庭。
• In rural communities, fuel already costs far more than in the Lower 48, with gasoline reaching $10 a gallon in some places. Peltola is tying rising fuel costs directly to Sullivan's support for the war, arguing higher diesel prices are hammering fishermen and families.
- 沙利文则呼吁暂时停止美国柴油出口，并主张阿拉斯加应增加自身能源生产。
• Sullivan has called for temporarily halting U.S. diesel exports and argues Alaska should produce more of its own energy.
- 而笼罩在所有问题之上的，是特朗普推动在阿拉斯加实施一项大规模液化天然气出口项目。众议院
• Looming over it all is Trump's push for a massive Alaska project to export liquefied natural gas. House
科罗拉多州第8选区。在这里，能源问题可能成为决定胜负的关键。该选区历史上两次大选的胜负差距均未超过1%，而此次能源议题尤为突出。
Colorado 8th. This is a contest where energy could be the tipping point. Both general elections in the district's young history have been decided by less than 1%, and energy is prominent this time around.
- 值得关注的另一个问题是，最近一项关于数据中心的投票能为现任共和党议员加布·埃文斯提供多少政治庇护。
• One thing to watch is how much political cover a recent data center vote gives incumbent Republican Gabe Evans.
- 埃文斯提出的两党支持《用户保护法案》上个月以417票对3票在众议院通过。该法案敦促各州——但并未强制——制定规则，确保数据中心开发商承担发电和电网升级的成本。
• Evans' bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act passed the House 417-3 last month. It urges states — but doesn't force them — to set rules ensuring data center developers cover generation and grid upgrade costs
- 同样不能忽视的是汽油价格。支持挑战者曼尼·鲁蒂内尔的新民主党广告将埃文斯与特朗普的伊朗战争及汽油价格上涨联系起来。
• Don't sleep on gasoline either. New Democratic ads supporting challenger Manny Rutinel tie Evans to Trump's war with Iran and higher gasoline prices.
宾夕法尼亚州第8选区。在共和党众议员罗布·布雷萨纳汉与民主党人斯克兰顿市长佩奇·科格内蒂之间的众议院选区竞选中，数据中心已成为核心议题。
Pennsylvania 8th. Data centers have become a central issue in the House race between Republican Rep. Rob Bresnahan and Democratic Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti.
- 宾夕法尼亚州东北部正迎来多个能源消耗巨大的数据中心项目提案。科格内蒂的竞选活动明确反对那些会推高电费、威胁供水或享受税收优惠的项目。
• Northeastern Pennsylvania is fielding proposals for the energy-hungry facilities. Cognetti is campaigning explicitly against projects that raise electric bills, threaten water supplies or receive tax breaks.
- 布雷斯纳汉此前一直支持数据中心发展，他提出了旨在保护拒绝项目免受企业诉讼的地方政府的立法。
• Bresnahan, who has previously supported data center development, has introduced legislation aimed at protecting local governments that reject projects from corporate lawsuits.
- 这场斗争抓住了围绕人工智能基础设施的新兴政治：社区可能想要投资和就业机会，但他们也希望控制成本。
• The fight captures the emerging politics around AI infrastructure: Communities may want the investment and jobs, but they also want control over the costs.