数据中心公司正花钱寻找阻力最小的社区。初创公司 Hamlet 通过抓取地方政府的视频录像，解析了数万场市议会会议，将发言标记为对潜在项目友好或敌对。
Data-center companies are ponying up to find out which communities will resist them the least. Startup Hamlet has parsed tens of thousands of city council meetings by scraping local governments’ video recordings, tagging comments as friendly or hostile to a potential project.
首席执行官 Sunil Rajaraman 告诉 Semafor，一家为数据中心提供资金的大型基金和一家数据中心开发商是其付费客户之一，他们在寻找暂停令的蛛丝马迹。
CEO Sunil Rajaraman told Semafor that a large fund that finances data centers and a data-center developer are among its paying customers, looking for whiffs of a moratorium.
Rajaraman 表示，“政治观点可能更有利的地方”很可能决定未来项目的选址。
“Where there might be more favorable political views” may well determine where future projects get built, Rajaraman said.
支持这些项目的投资者显然也是美国人对数据中心日益增长的敌意实时数据流的客户。
Investors backing these projects are also obvious customers for a real-time feed into Americans’ growing antipathy toward data centers.
对这类数据的需求显示，在全美反数据中心行动主义高涨、社区舆情成为财务风险的背景下，科技业正竭力寻找项目最可能获批的地方。
The appetite for such data shows the lengths to which the tech industry is going to find where projects are most likely to go through, in the face of a national groundswell of anti-data center activism that has turned community sentiment into a financial risk.
Rajaraman 称，Hamlet 的其他客户还包括房地产开发商、政治行动委员会和零售商。该公司周二推出了新的排名，显示各城市和县在一系列热门议题（从分区法律到匹克球）上的立场，并提供了一个门户供人们查询其民选官员的表态。（在大型地方政府中，得克萨斯州科珀斯克里斯蒂在发言者对数据中心的反对程度上排名第一。）Rajaraman 说：“这是公共领域数据。数据需要公开，以便美国能做出更好的决策。”
Other Hamlet customers include real estate developers, political action committees, and retailers, Rajaraman said. The company on Tuesday launched new rankings for where cities and counties stand on a host of hot-button issues (ranging from zoning laws to pickleball), and a portal for people to look up what their elected officials have said. (Among large local governments, Corpus Christi, Texas ranked No. 1 in speakers’ opposition to data centers.)“This is public sphere data,” Rajaraman said. “The data needs to be out there so America can make better decisions.”