特朗普总统呼吁在美国建设大型数据中心的公司自行发电，并建议它们在建设新设施时向社区支付“分红”，以缓和当地反对情绪。
President Trump called for companies that build large data centers in the U.S. to make their own electricity and suggested they pay communities a dividend when constructing new facilities to blunt local opposition.
特朗普周三早些时候在 Truth Social 发文写道：“新建和大型、在某些情况下是巨型的数据中心，由我强制要求自行发电，并将任何多余电力回馈或出售给当地社区或电网。”
“New and large, in some cases gigantic, data [c]enters are mandated by me to make their own electricity, and give or sell any excess back to the local community, or grid,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social early Wednesday.
特朗普表示，为了让数据中心更受欢迎，公司应当“向社区、和/或社区内的个人支付一笔‘分红’。”随着数据中心扩张加速，公众对能源需求和环境足迹的抵制正将设施建设变成中期选举前的一个争议性议题。选民抵制浪潮不断高涨，促使多个州的立法者考虑暂停新建项目，威胁到由人工智能热潮推动的快速房地产开发。
Trump said to make data centers more popular companies should “pay the community, and/or individuals within the community, a ‘dividend.’”As data center expansion accelerates, public pushback over energy demands and environmental footprints is turning the facility build-out into a contentious issue ahead of the midterm elections. A growing wave of voter resistance has prompted lawmakers in several states to consider moratoriums on new construction, threatening to slow the rapid real-estate development fueled by the artificial-intelligence boom.