悉尼，11月5日电：澳大利亚人口最多的州对数据中心展开的一项调查发现，审批流程未能考虑对资源和基础设施的累积影响，但并未建议实施暂停令，引来该调查主席的严厉斥责。
SYDNEY, Nov 5 : An inquiry into data centres by Australia's most populous state found approvals failed to consider the cumulative effect on resources and infrastructure but stopped short of calling for a moratorium, prompting a blistering rebuke from its chair.
新南威尔士州跨党派调查委员会的这份报告反映出全球立法者面临的日益加剧的紧张局势：他们在应对麦肯锡估计到2030年将达7万亿美元的AI驱动建设热潮时，既想从繁荣中获益，但社区的抵制却日益强烈。
The report by the New South Wales cross-party inquiry reflects a growing tension facing lawmakers globally as they navigate an AI-led buildout that McKinsey estimates will be worth $7 trillion by 2030: they want to benefit from the boom but communities are putting up increasingly robust resistance.
这种张力在新南威尔士州尤为强烈，该州首府是悉尼，开发商NextDC和ChatGPT所有者OpenAI正等待一座数据中心的审批。该州将于明年3月举行大选，已有居民迫使一个较小项目撤回。
The tension is especially strong in New South Wales, of which Sydney is the capital, where developer NextDC and ChatGPT owner OpenAI are awaiting approval for a data centre. There is a state election next March, and already residents in one suburb prompted a smaller project to be withdrawn.
报告发现，该州缺乏连贯战略来管理数据中心热潮对水、电力和基础设施的影响。报告警告称，现行指南可能低估了未来的电力需求和供水限制，且设施“集群化”可能造成基础设施压力。
The report found the state lacked a coherent strategy to manage the data centre boom's impact on water, electricity and infrastructure. It warned current guidelines may underestimate future power demand and water supply limits, and that "clustering" facilities could create infrastructure pressures.
报告指出：“现行规划框架主要将数据中心作为单个开发项目进行评估，尽管许多影响本质上是累积的。”
"The current planning framework assesses data centres primarily as individual developments despite many impacts being cumulative in nature," it said.
“数据中心……的影响是累积的，并正在各社区和其他行业中显现。”但报告并未建议暂停审批，而是呼吁制定全面的数据中心战略，并加强审批流程各参与方之间的协调。
"Data centre ... impacts are cumulative and are being felt across communities and other industries." But it stopped short of recommending a halt to approvals, and instead called for a comprehensive data centre strategy and better coordination between participants in the approvals pipeline.
报告附件的会议纪要显示，公共问责与工程委员会成员以6比1投票，删除了关于在州和国家层面暂停数据中心审批的建议，“直至所有社会和环境危害能被充分了解”。
Minutes attached to the report showed members of the Public Accountability and Works Committee voted 6-1 to remove recommendations for a state and national moratorium on data centre approvals "until such time as all social and environmental harms can be fully understood".
委员会主席阿比盖尔·博伊德（Abigail Boyd）是绿党籍的上议院议员，她投下了唯一一张保留建议的赞成票。她在报告前言中写道，“由人工智能推动的数据中心狂潮”“正威胁着消耗难以想象的巨量能源和水资源，以满足其需求”。
Committee chair Abigail Boyd, an upper house member from the Greens party who cast the lone vote to keep the recommendations, wrote in the report's foreword that an "AI-fuelled data centre frenzy" was "threatening to consume incomprehensibly large volumes of energy and water to feed their demands".
她写道：“越来越明显的是，各派政府都被一场由人工智能推动的‘快速致富骗局’所迷惑，数据中心完美契合了那些缺乏主意的政府的需求。”“但这是一种得不偿失的经济账。”
"It is increasingly apparent that governments of all persuasions have been suckered in by an AI-fuelled get rich quick scheme, with data centres suiting the needs of governments short on ideas perfectly," she wrote. "But it's a false economy."