12个美国州的司法部长要求联邦监管机构批准建设一条天然气管道，以供应位于新墨西哥州的甲骨文公司数据中心所需的电力，他们指出，更广泛的环境审查可能会使全国范围内类似项目变得复杂。
The attorneys general of 12 US states have asked federal regulators to authorize construction of a natural gas pipeline needed to power an Oracle Corp. data center in New Mexico, arguing that a broader environmental review could complicate similar projects across the country.
这十二个州在周三致联邦能源监管委员会的信中表示，他们“对新墨西哥州多尼亚阿纳县一条名为‘绿色智利项目’的17.8英里输气管道的法律争议有直接利益关系”。能源转移LP公司的该管道每日可输送多达4亿立方英尺的天然气，用于为甲骨文公司正在开发的“木星项目”供电——该项目是一个巨大的数据中心园区，旨在为OpenAI提供服务。
The dozen states “have a direct stake” in the legal fight playing out over the 17.8-mile proposed pipeline dubbed the Green Chile Project in New Mexico’s Doña Ana County, they said in a Wednesday letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The Energy Transfer LP pipeline would move as much as 400 million cubic feet per day of natural gas to power generation infrastructure for Project Jupiter, a massive data-center campus being developed by Oracle to serve OpenAI.
其中几个州是主要的天然气生产州，另外几个州正试图吸引数据中心及其所需的发电能力。数据中心开发商越来越倾向于使用天然气自行发电，而不是等待并入电网。
Several of the states are major natural-gas producers and several are trying to attract data centers and the power generation needed to serve them. Data-center developers are increasingly looking to generate their own electricity using natural gas rather than wait to be connected to the grid.
这12位司法部长正在挑战新墨西哥州的论点，即联邦监管机构必须考虑该管道及其所服务数据中心的环境后果，他们主张FERC不会批准各州的数据中心设施，也没有权力对其进行监管。
The 12 attorneys general are challenging New Mexico’s argument that federal regulators must consider the environmental consequences of both the pipeline and the data center it would serve, contending FERC does not approve data center facilities in states and has no authority to regulate them.
他们认为，FERC对“绿色智利项目”的处理可能会建立一种监管做法，并被应用于全国其他类似的以天然气供电的数据中心开发项目。签署该信的州包括：西弗吉尼亚州、阿拉斯加州、阿肯色州、佛罗里达州、佐治亚州、爱荷华州、路易斯安那州、密西西比州、蒙大拿州、内布拉斯加州、俄亥俄州和南卡罗来纳州。
They believe that FERC’s treatment of the Green Chile Project could establish a regulatory approach that gets applied to similar gas-fed data-center developments elsewhere. The signatories are West Virginia, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio and South Carolina.
那些在新墨西哥州项目中没有直接角色的州却异常积极地参与其中，这凸显了美国数据中心快速扩张所需电力背后的利害关系。为此类发电设施建设所需的各种批准程序，已成为监管机构和反对数据中心的倡导团体的主要焦点。
The unusual involvement of states with no direct role in the New Mexico project underscores the stakes surrounding the power needed for the rapid US data-center build-out. The various approvals needed to construct such power-generation facilities have emerged as a key target for regulators and advocacy groups opposing data centers.
其他州的一些数据中心项目也需要发电设施，这些设施需要自建短管道支线连接到更大的州际管道系统，就像绿智利项目将从能源转移公司更大的Transwestern管道系统获取天然气一样。
Some data center projects in other states will also need power generation facilities that require their own short pipeline laterals connecting to a larger interstate pipeline system, just as Green Chile will pull gas off Energy Transfer’s larger Transwestern pipeline system.
新墨西哥州方面则主张进行更广泛的联邦环境审查，称这些项目缺乏“独立效用”。其他12个州实际上在捍卫联邦监管权力的界限。
New Mexico, for its part, is arguing for a broader federal environmental review, saying the projects lack “independent utility.”The 12 other states are effectively defending the limits of federal regulatory authority.