数据中心建设商正面临适合组装人工智能热潮所需设备的最大型仓库短缺问题，得克萨斯州亿万富翁房地产开发商罗斯·佩罗二世（Ross Perot Jr.）表示。
Data-center builders are grappling with a shortage of the largest warehouses used to assemble equipment for the artificial intelligence boom, according to Ross Perot Jr., a billionaire real estate developer in Texas.
佩罗周二在接受采访时称，目前全美适合组装数据中心所用电子及其他设备的空置百万平方英尺级仓库库存已从通常的50个缩减至15至20个。
The inventory of vacant, million-square-foot warehouses suitable for putting together the electronics and other gear used in data centers has shrunk to 15 or 20 across the US right now from the typical 50, Perot said Tuesday during a taping of .
他补充说，在他旗下Hillwood正在建设广阔的AllianceTexas数据中心园区的北得克萨斯地区，目前仅有一个此类仓库可用。
In North Texas, where Perot’s Hillwood is building the sprawling AllianceTexas Data Center Campus, there’s just one currently available, he added.
“美国正经历这场工业繁荣，而我们的仓库却在枯竭，”佩罗在采访中表示，该采访是彭博投资达拉斯活动的一部分。“AI供应链规模惊人，几乎每个AI供应商都需要一百万平方英尺。”据仲量联行（Jones Lang LaSalle Inc.）10月20日发布的报告，全国范围内，面积在百万平方英尺或以上的甲级仓库空置率在第三季度降至5.4%，一年前为9.5%。
“You’ve got this industrial boom going on in the United States, and we’re running out of warehouses,” Perot said during the interview, which was conducted as part of the Bloomberg Invest Dallas event. “The AI supply chain is staggering and it’s like every AI supplier needs a million square feet.”Nationwide, the vacancy rate for Class A warehouses of a million square feet or more fell to 5.4% during the third quarter from 9.5% a year earlier, Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. said in an Oct. 20 report.
因此，仓库开发商将建设管线较一年前增加了近29%，达到3.17亿平方英尺，仲量联行称。
As a result, warehouse developers have increased the building pipeline by almost 29% from a year ago to 317 million square feet, JLL said.
佩罗家族财富部分源于可追溯至1960年代的数据中心开发业务。佩罗表示，该行业直到最近才变得颇具争议。数据中心已成为美国中期选举的热门话题，批评者抱怨其巨大的电力和用水消耗，以及大型场地带来的空气和噪音污染。支持者则称，它们是开启AI未来的关键。
Perot, whose family fortune was in part built on data center development going back to the 1960s, said the sector was uncontroversial until very recently. Data centers have become a hot topic in the US midterm elections, with critics complaining about their robust electricity and water consumption as well as air and noise pollution stemming from the massive sites. Defenders say they’re key to ushering in the AI future.
“直到大约六个月前，没人说一句话，”他说。“它们变得有争议了，我认为这有点像水力压裂。人们在了解水力压裂之前就对此激动不已。他们对数据中心也是有点激动不已。”佩罗说，该行业需要更好地解释数据中心项目给东道社区带来的优势，其中不乏税收收入。
“No one said a word until about six months ago,” he said. “They became controversial and I think it’s a little bit like fracking. People got all wound up on fracking before they understood it. They’re sort of wound up on data centers.”The industry needs to do a better job of explaining the advantages that data center projects bestow on host communities, not least of which is tax revenue, Perot said.
“一旦你了解了数据中心以及它能给你的社区带来多少繁荣，它们就必须建设，”他补充道。“这些数据中心是城市巨大的税收创造者。”
“Once you understand the data center and the amount of prosperity it can bring into your community, they’ve got to be done,” he added. “These data centers are huge tax generators for a city.”