尽管媒体对人工智能的批评日益加剧，数据中心在美国各地蔓延，但一家新闻网络却在描绘更为积极的画面。
Despite increasingly critical media coverage of AI and the spread of data centers across the US, one news network has been painting a more positive picture.
根据Semafor对各网络数据中心提及情况的最新分析，福克斯新闻（Fox News）在过去两年中超过一半的数据中心相关提及会让观众留下积极印象，而CNN则低于10%，MS NOW仅为5%。
More than half of the references to data centers on Fox News over the last two years would have left viewers with a favorable impression, compared to less than 10% on CNN and 5% on MS NOW, according to a new Semafor analysis of mentions of data centers on each network.
这些提及内容来自互联网档案馆（Internet Archive）保存的字幕，该机构维护着一个可数字化搜索的录制电视新闻库。Anthropic和OpenAI的一对AI模型对每条提及的内容进行评分，并在评分过程中移除了网络名称。
The mentions were pulled from closed captions preserved by the Internet Archive, which keeps a digital, searchable library of recorded TV news. A pair of AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI scored each reference on its content, with the network’s name removed.
随着政治对人工智能的反弹日益激烈，数据中心本身也成为中期选举前的热点问题，数据中心的提及在三大网络上可预见地激增。
Mentions of data centers have, predictably, shot up across all three networks in recent months as political backlash against AI swells and the data centers themselves have become a salient issue ahead of the midterms.
但分析显示，福克斯的评论节目和早晨节目——包括《》等——通过强调人工智能的承诺、经济投资以及与中国的竞争，使其报道整体偏向积极。该网络的新闻节目则表现得更为克制。
But Fox’s opinion and morning shows, including, , and leaned on the promise of AI, economic investment and the race with China, skewing Fox’s coverage more favorably, the analysis showed. The network’s news shows were more measured.
在8月23日的一段独白中，福克斯主持人布莱恩·基尔梅德（Brian Kilmeade）曾一度出现字幕写着“数据中心的论点”（The case for data centers），他承认存在“真实担忧”，但主张：“全国范围内说‘不’建数据中心也就意味着说‘不’流入社区的税收……如果美国人不建设满足需求的基础设施，其他人就会这么做。”而在CNN和MS NOW上，批评则同样关注数据中心的政治毒性以及诸如电费高昂或用水量大等危害，将其描绘为选民不喜欢的设施，以及支持它们的政客在中期选举中的政治负担。
In an Aug. 23 monologue that at one point featured a chyron reading “The case for data centers,” Fox host Brian Kilmeade acknowledged “real concerns,” but argued that “saying no to data centers nationwide also means saying no to the tax dollars that can flow into a community. … If Americans don’t build the infrastructure to meet the demand, somebody else will.”On CNN and MS NOW, the criticism focused as much on the facilities’ political toxicity as on harms like power bills or water use, casting them as unpopular with voters and a liability for politicians who back them heading into the midterms.
数据中心“正在推高能源成本，耗尽水资源，消灭而非创造就业机会，”MS NOW的凯蒂·特尔在五月份表示。“政客们要小心。”民意调查显示，在各个群体中，美国人对数据中心的看法日益负面：皮尤研究中心上个月发现，超过一半的美国人认为数据中心对环境主要有害，而这一比例在1月份为39%。福克斯新闻未对此故事发表评论。
Data centers “are driving up energy costs, sucking up water supplies, wiping out rather than creating jobs,” MS NOW’s Katy Tur said in May. “Politicians beware.”Polling shows that across demographic groups, Americans hold increasingly negative views of data centers: More than half of Americans say data centers are mostly bad for the environment, Pew Research Center found last month, compared with 39% in January. Fox News did not comment for this story.
福克斯新闻的亲数据中心节目正值右翼试图在后特朗普、人工智能驱动的时代定立其立场之际。
The pro-data center programming on Fox News comes as the right tries to define its positions in an AI-fueled, post-Donald Trump future.
福克斯新闻对数据中心的有利报道反映了特朗普对其增长及人工智能公司助力美国经济必要性的立场。
Fox’s favorable data center coverage mirrors Trump’s position on their growth and the need for AI companies to help fuel the US economy.
“美国各地社区不希望拥有数据中心的唯一原因，是如果他们想最终变得落后和贫穷，”特朗普在八月于Truth Social上写道。“如果我们杀死了这只金鹅，你们只能自食其果。”但人们对数据中心及人工智能快速发展的愤怒，代表着将特朗普重新送入白宫的MAGA联盟内部的一条断层线。佛罗里达州州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯和密苏里州共和党参议员乔什·霍利对其各州的一些数据中心提出质疑，而德克萨斯州州长格雷格·阿博特似乎已从支持数据中心转为在其州寻求放缓其增长，这发生在他艰难的连任竞选过程中。
“The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backwards and poor,” Trump wrote on Truth Social in August. “If we kill the Golden Goose, you will only have yourselves to blame.”But anger about data centers and the rapid advancement of AI represents a faultline within the MAGA coalition that swept Trump back into office. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., have questioned some data centers in their states, while Texas Gov. Greg Abbott seems to have flipped from supporting data centers to looking to slow their growth in his state amid a tougher-than-expected reelection campaign.
我在过去几个月里与一些右翼人士交谈时，他们担心福克斯新闻——特朗普虔诚地观看该频道——以及其他亲数据中心的声音，正在鼓励总统采取与其农村和郊区基础广泛不受欢迎的立场。
Some on the right I have talked to in the last several months worry that Fox News, which Trump watches religiously, and other pro-data center voices are encouraging the president to take positions that are broadly unpopular with his rural and suburban base.
“大科技寡头，推动人工智能的那些人，做得很糟糕，”特朗普坚定的反人工智能盟友史蒂夫·班农在九月对《每日信号》说。“他们进来试图用武力压制当地社区，尤其是由于特朗普总统最坚定的支持基础位于城郊和农村社区，他们在那里表现得尤为丑陋，他们也没有说服大家，特别是在地方层面，他们根本没有就这件事的经济、能源、用水以及这些技术将被用于何种方式作出说明。”福克斯对数据中心的报道并非全是乐观的；相比去年，其基调在2026年略显不利。
“The Big Tech oligarchs, the guys driving AI, did a terrible job,” Steve Bannon, a staunchly anti-AI Trump ally, told the Daily Signal in September. “They came in to try to muscle local communities, and particularly since President Trump’s strongest base is in exurban and rural communities, that’s where they were really the ugliest, and they haven’t made their case, and they particularly haven’t made their case at the local level about the economics of this, and the energy of this, and the water of this, and the manifestation of what these things are going to be used for.”Not all of Fox’s data center coverage has been rosy; its tenor grew slightly less favorable in 2026 compared to last year.
“它正在以过度的方式消耗我们的水资源、农业用地或电力。我们将会崩溃，”德克萨斯州农业专员在八月的一档周末福克斯节目采访中表示。“我们根本做不到。资源不足。”
“It’s taxing our system way too much on water, agriculture land, or electricity. We’re gonna implode,” the Texas agriculture commissioner said in an interview on a weekend Fox show in August. “We just can’t do it. There’s not enough.