
问问德州全国有色人种协进会(NAACP)主席加里·布莱德索,看着数据中心开发商涌入奥斯汀及其周边郊区是什么感受,他能列举一个又一个遭到当地居民反对的项目。
Ask Texas NAACP president Gary Bledsoe what it's been like to see data center developers descend upon Austin and its surrounding suburbs and he can rattle off project after project facing opposition from locals.
在泰勒市,因计划在本应建公园的场地上建设数据中心而引发争斗。布莱德索说,距离那里约 40 英里的坦普尔市是另一个痛点,当地市长和市议会成员因数据中心开发项目面临罢免尝试。而在奥斯汀外围约 30 英里处,圣马科斯成为了全德州第一个禁止数据中心的城市。数据中心在世界上没有任何地方比……
There's the fight in Taylor over plans to build a data center at a site that's supposed to be a park. Temple, around 40 miles away, is another sore spot, Bledsoe says. The mayor and City Council members there face recall attempts over data center developments. And some 30 miles outside of Austin, San Marcos became the first city in all of Texas to ban data centers. Nowhere in the world are data centers growing more explosively than …