在本周美国中期选举中，数据中心限制措施获得了州长候选人的广泛支持，Data Center Watch 考察的几乎所有候选人都支持禁令、暂停或更严格的开发规则。Data Center Watch 追踪全美针对算力大棚的草根反对声浪，该机构考察了在 11 月 3 日中期选举中选举州长的 36 个州内 74 位入选候选人的公开立场。结果显示，43% 的候选人支持禁止或暂停新项目，另有 51% 支持进一步监管或有条件开发。
Datacenter restrictions found broad support among candidates for governor in this week's US midterm elections, with nearly all those examined by Data Center Watch backing bans, pauses, or tighter development rules. Data Center Watch, which tracks grassroots opposition to compute sheds across America, examined the public positions of 74 selected candidates across the 36 states that elected governors in the midterm elections on November 3. It found that 43 percent of those candidates supported a ban or moratorium on new projects, while another 51 percent backed further regulation or conditional development.
仅约 5% 的候选人没有公开表态。支持禁令或暂停的立场跨越了党派界限，尽管在接受考察的民主党候选人中更为常见（60%），共和党候选人为 30%。在马里兰州、缅因州、密歇根州、新罕布什尔州、俄亥俄州、俄勒冈州、威斯康星州和得克萨斯州这八个州，两大党派的候选人均支持限制措施。得克萨斯州近期因拥有充足的能源资源和宽松的监管，数据中心园区开发迎来热潮，不过即将卸任的州长格雷格·阿博特今年早些时候曾下令暂停，以开展能源和水资源使用审计。
Only about 5 percent had no stated public position. Support for bans or moratoriums crossed party lines, although it was more common among the Democratic candidates examined (60 percent) than Republicans (30 percent). Candidates from both major parties backed restrictions in eight states: Maryland, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, Wisconsin, and Texas. Texas has experienced a boom in data campus development recently, thanks to its ample energy resources and light-touch regulations, although outgoing governor Greg Abbott ordered a pause earlier this year while audits of energy and water use were carried out.
民主党人吉娜·伊诺霍萨在周二的选举中击败阿博特，将于 1 月就职。这些立场对开发商至关重要，因为州长可以塑造州级法规、能源政策和许可审批，尽管批准权限因辖区而异。然而，暂时性暂停和有针对性的建设限制，并不一定等同于反对所有数据中心开发。在选民直接就该议题投票的地方，情况甚至更为明朗，除候选人外，数据中心相关措施也出现在选票上。
Democrat Gina Hinojosa defeated Abbott in Tuesday's election and will take office in January. Those positions matter to developers because governors can shape state regulation, energy policy, and permitting, although approval powers vary by jurisdiction. However, temporary pauses and targeted construction restrictions do not necessarily amount to opposition to all datacenter development. Things were even starker where folk got to vote directly on the issue, with measures regarding datacenters appearing on the ballot as well as candidates.
Data Centers on the Ballot 追踪了许多此类措施，发稿时发现，在 46 个就收紧服务器农场限制进行投票的市政单位中，有 43 个批准了这些措施。
Data Centers on the Ballot, which tracked many of these, found that 43 out of 46 municipalities where tighter restrictions on server farms were up for a vote had approved those at the time of publication.
仅在北达科他州哈伍德市这一个案例中，限制措施被否决，另有2个案例尚未公布结果。与人工智能相关的竞选支出也受到审查。由工会支持的压力团体“护栏联盟”将反对人工智能监管的超级政治行动委员会网络“引领未来”描述为在选举中“主要是一个无足轻重的因素”。该联盟指控该网络避开了竞争最激烈的选战，因为“他们知道自己的钱在政治上是有毒的”。
Only in one case, the City of Harwood in North Dakota, had restrictions been rejected, and 2 had yet to post results. AI-related campaign spending has also come under scrutiny. Guardrails Alliance, a labor-backed pressure group, described Leading the Future, a super PAC network opposing AI regulation, as "largely a non-factor" in the elections. It alleged the network avoided the most competitive races because "they know their money is politically toxic."
随着数据中心在民众家门口涌现，且往往未让民众在过程中拥有任何发言权，美国国内反数据中心情绪日益高涨。盖洛普公司今年早些时候的一项调查发现，超过70%的美国人会反对在其社区建设数据中心，而皮尤研究中心的一项调查发现，美国人越来越认为数据中心对环境有害，并将家庭能源账单上涨归咎于数据中心。
Anti-datacenter sentiment has grown in the US in response to the facilities popping up in people's backyards, often without them having any say in the process. A Gallup survey earlier this year discovered that more than 70 percent of Americans would be against the construction of one in their neighborhood, while a Pew Research Center survey found that Americans increasingly believe datacenters are bad for the environment and blame them for rising household energy bills.
皮尤还发现，在7月27日至10月24日期间，广告商在Facebook和Instagram上投放提及数据中心的政治广告花费近1200万美元。在10月份截至研究截止日期期间投放的广告中，57%反对数据中心，仅3%支持。常见主题包括企业利益、能源使用、环境影响和水资源消耗。®
Pew also found that advertisers spent almost $12 million on Facebook and Instagram political ads mentioning datacenters between July 27 and October 24. Among those running in October through the study's cutoff, 57 percent opposed datacenters and just three percent supported them. Common themes included corporate interests, energy use, environmental effects, and water consumption. ®