环境部长玛丽亚·达·格拉萨·卡瓦略周二表示，葡萄牙将要求数据中心由可再生能源供电，并采用无水冷却技术或替代水源，以免影响居民和企业的用水供应。
Portugal will require data centres to be powered by renewable energy and use water-free cooling technologies or alternative water sources so as not to compromise household and business supplies, Environment Minister Maria da Graca Carvalho said on Tuesday.
葡萄牙正成为欧洲数据中心枢纽，目前有超过 2.6 吉瓦的项目在建，由位于锡尼什的 1.2 吉瓦 Start Campus 项目领衔，该项目获得微软 MSFT.O 在 AI 基础设施方面的投资支持。
The country is emerging as a European data centre hub, with more than 2.6 gigawatts under development, led by the 1.2-GW Start Campus project in Sines, backed by Microsoft MSFT.O AI infrastructure investments.
数据中心因耗电量和用水量巨大，在全球面临环保组织和社区日益增长的反对。
Data centres have faced growing opposition worldwide from environmental groups and communities concerned about their heavy electricity and water usage.
卡瓦略称，政府正在敲定一项法令，数据中心将面临“严格的用水要求”和“非常严格”的环境评审。
Carvalho said the government was finalising a decree under which data centres would face "stringent requirements on water use" and a "very rigorous" environmental review.
她在议会听证会上表示：“我们将要求项目要么采用不需要淡水的冷却技术，因为这已经可行；要么采用不与大众用水及其他社会经济活动用水冲突的水资源解决方案。”
"We'll require projects to either have a cooling technology that does not require fresh water, because that is already possible, or a water solution that does not conflict with water supplies for the general population and other socio-economic activities," she told a parliamentary hearing.
她还说，数据中心必须使用可再生能源运行，运营商可从公用事业公司购买，鉴于葡萄牙拥有丰富的太阳能、风能和水电资源。
Data centres would be required to run on renewable energy, which operators can buy from utilities, given Portugal's abundant solar, wind and hydropower resources, she said.
Start Campus 规划的六栋建筑中已有一栋投入运营，该中心使用可再生能源并采用海水冷却系统。
Start Campus has one of six planned buildings already in operation, and it runs on renewable energy and uses a seawater cooling system.