新建数据中心的热潮可能让空气污染卷土重来，达到2000年代以来未见的水平，而得克萨斯州已成为生成式人工智能背后物理基础设施的核心地带。
A rush of new data centers could bring air pollution roaring back to levels not seen since the 2000s in Texas, which has become ground zero for the physical infrastructure behind generative AI.
新建和拟建数据中心需要海量电力。开发商和公用事业公司如何满足这一需求——是使用燃气轮机还是可再生能源——将决定污染程度有多严重。不过到目前为止，形势看来很严峻。
New and proposed data centers are demanding a tremendous amount of electricity. How developers and utilities meet that demand - with gas turbines or renewable energy - will determine just how dirty things will get. So far, though, things are looking grim.
科技公司和数据中心开发商正在想方设法获取足够电力，包括自建电源。但如果所有规划中的数据中心项目都接入……
Tech companies and data center developers are devising new ways to get enough electricity, including building out their own power sources. But if all planned data center projects were to plug into …