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MAHA activists urge Trump to refrain from championing coal to power energy-intensive AI data centers

MAHA activists urge Trump to refrain from championing coal to power energy-intensive AI data centers

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August 21st, 2026

MAHA activists urge Trump to refrain from championing coal to power energy-intensive AI data centers

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Nearly two hundred activists devoted to the 'Make America Healthy Again' (MAHA) movement championed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. jointly dispatched a missive on Friday, excoriating President Donald Trump's fervent advocacy of coal to underpin the burgeoning ascendancy of artificial intelligence data centers.

近200名投身于卫生部长罗伯特·F·肯尼迪(Robert F. Kennedy Jr.)所倡导的“让美国再次健康”(MAHA)运动活跃人士于周五联名致函总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)为支撑人工智能数据中心之崛起力推煤炭之举提出严词抨击。

The letter, bearing the signatures of at least two former staff members from Kennedy's 2024 presidential campaign, marks the inaugural large-scale mobilization of the MAHA movement on the issue of fossil fuels, and constitutes one of the latest schisms between the organization's diverse cohort of activists and the Trump administration over environmental policy.

这封信至少肯尼迪2024年总统竞选团队的两名前工作人员联署标志着MAHA运动首次就化石燃料议题展开大规模动员为该组织内部多元化的活动人士与特朗普政府在环境政策上出现的最新分歧之一

This missive, initially procured by Reporters, is addressed to Trump, Kennedy, and sundry other cabinet luminaries, wherein it expresses profound regret over a 2025 executive order designed to facilitate coal-powered data centers as a countermeasure to pollution, while concurrently urging the administration to judiciously deliberate upon renewable energy alternatives, encompassing solar and geothermal sources.

这封由《记者报》(Reporters)率先获取的信函,致予特朗普肯尼迪内阁其他多位要员信中对于2025年一项旨在推动煤炭为数据中心供电以应对污染问题的行政命令深表遗憾敦促政府审慎考量包括太阳能地热能在内的可再生能源方案

The letter states: "We are acutely aware of the importance of the United States' leadership in artificial intelligence, national security, innovation, and economic growth; however, America's preeminence in the field of artificial intelligence must never come at the cost of subjecting its own children to an even graver burden of toxic harm."

信中写道:“我们深知美国在人工智能、国家安全、创新及经济增长领域发挥领导作用的重要性然而美国在人工智能领域的领先地位绝不应本国儿童承受更为深重的毒害负担为代价。”

White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers responded that during Trump's first term in office, greenhouse gas emissions fell to their lowest level in three decades, and underscored that Trump "has been mandated to dismantle the radical climate policies that have imposed an untenable fiscal burden on taxpayers."

白宫发言人泰勒·罗杰斯(Taylor Rogers)回应称在特朗普首个执政任期内温室气体排放量已降至三十年来最低水平并强调特朗普“获得了授权以废除那些令纳税人财政负担不堪重负的激进气候政策”。

The agencies that received the correspondence did not immediately respond to requests for comment, a silence that may be construed as a judicious deliberation on the matter at hand.

收到信函的各机构并未即刻就置评请求作出回应,此等沉默或可视为对相关事宜的审慎考量。

The letter implicates prominent figures within MAHA, including Zen Honeycutt, a former staffer on Kennedy's campaign and founder of the advocacy group Moms Across America, as well as Charles Eisenstein, who previously served as a speechwriter for Kennedy's campaign.

这封信背后所牵涉的MAHA知名人物包括曾任肯尼迪竞选团队工作人员倡导组织“全美妈妈”(Moms Across America)创始人赞·霍尼卡特(Zen Honeycutt),以及曾任肯尼迪竞选演讲稿撰写人查尔斯·艾森斯坦(Charles Eisenstein)。

Honeycutt stated that she had requested the political action committee MAHA Action, allied with Kennedy, to sign the letter, yet received no response whatsoever.

霍尼卡特表示曾要求与肯尼迪结盟的政治行动委员会“MAHA行动”(MAHA Action)在信上署名未获任何回应

Although this missive may not wholly encapsulate the stance of every MAHA activist, with less than three months remaining before the November midterm elections, this fresh volley of criticism aimed at the administration's flagship policies could impose additional impediments upon Republicans, who are endeavoring to secure the allegiance of this demographic in pivotal contests.

尽管此函未必能全然代表所有MAHA活动人士之立场,然在十一月中期选举前不足三个月之际针对政府标志性政策之新一轮抨击或将为共和党人平添额外掣肘盖因彼等正力图在关键竞逐中赢得该选民群体之拥戴。

In his capacity as Secretary of Health, Kennedy has instituted a series of policy reforms designed to appease the MAHA movement, notably including efforts to curtail the recommended scope of childhood vaccinationsa central demand of certain activists.

作为卫生部长肯尼迪已推行一系列旨在迎合MAHA运动政策变革其中包括试图缩减儿童疫苗推荐范围——此乃部分活动人士的核心诉求。

Furthermore, he has devoted himself to the elimination of artificial colorings from foodstuffs, while championing a wholesome dietary paradigm for Americans that eschews ultra-processed fare.

致力于从食品中剔除人工色素倡导美国人采纳摒弃超加工食品健康膳食模式

Nevertheless, numerous adherents of the MAHA movementwhich Trump avers was instrumental in his recapture of the White House two years agoopenly confess to a profound disillusionment with the administration's policy platform, one that embraces agricultural chemicals such as glyphosate and relaxes environmental oversight.

然而MAHA运动中的诸多成员特朗普声称正是该运动两年前助力其重夺白宫却坦言,他们对政府接纳草甘膦等农用化学品并放宽环境监管的施政纲领深感幻灭。

Some go further, declaring their intention to cast their ballots this autumn on the merits of individual issues rather than along partisan linesa stance that imbues their increasingly overt friction with the Republican administration with considerable political significance.

部分人士更表示他们计划今秋依据议题本身而非党派归属来行使投票权,这一立场使得他们与共和党政府之间日益公开化的紧张关系具备了举足轻重的政治意涵。

As president, Trump has embraced with fervor what he calls "beautiful, clean coal," utterly disregarding the vehement protests of environmentalists over the greenhouse gases and toxic chemicals emitted by coal-fired power plants.

作为总统特朗普热情洋溢地拥抱了他所称的又大又美的煤炭”,全然不顾环保人士燃煤电厂所释放温室气体有毒化学物质强烈抗议

His administration has set about dismantling the more stringent greenhouse gas emission standards enacted during the Biden tenurestandards that, beyond their climatic implications, could also impair neurodevelopment in children and elevate the risk of cardiac events in adults.

其政府已着手推翻拜登执政时期更为严苛的温室气体排放标准——这些标准除影响气候外还可能损害儿童大脑发育,并增加成年人心脏病发作的风险

He is likewise an ardent champion of data centersfacilities that furnish the computational backbone for artificial intelligence and cloud computingwhich, in his estimation, constitute an indispensable strategic asset for prevailing decisively in the artificial intelligence race against China.

亦是数据中心的积极拥趸——这些设施为人工智能与云计算提供算力支撑在他看来此乃对华人工智能竞赛中克敌制胜不可或缺的战略要件

This week, Trump remarked, "Were I to hold the office of mayor or governor, I would have the opportunity to attract major installations such as AI factories or data centers, and I would gladly embrace them, given the substantial employment opportunities, capital investment, and tax revenues they generate."

特朗普本周表示:“倘若身居市长州长之位便有机会引进诸如人工智能工厂数据中心之类的大型设施,我必将欣然接纳因其带来的就业机会资金投入税收贡献极为可观。”

Data centres have emerged as a red-hot political issue in the current election cycle.

数据中心已然成为本届选举中炙手可热的政治议题

Voters across the political spectrum have roundly condemned them, decrying their propensity to inflate electricity bills, deplete water reserves, and generate air and noise pollution detrimental to public health.

来自各政治阵营的选民纷纷对其口诛笔伐谴责其推高电费耗尽水资源制造有害健康的空气及噪音污染

A missive dispatched on Friday sternly enjoined government agencies to subject decisions regarding data center siting and power sourcing to transparent scrutiny, and to adhere scrupulously to extant environmental assessment protocols within the permitting process.

周五来函严饬政府机关数据中心选址电力来源决策施行透明化审查,且须许可审批程序恪守既有的环境评估规范

Honeycutt candidly acknowledged that, in the wake of the executive order promulgated by Trump the previous year, she had undertaken a meticulous investigation into the profound ramifications of coal ash on surrounding communities, and the truths thus unearthed left her profoundly disquieted.

霍尼卡特坦言在特朗普去年颁布行政命令之后她曾深入探究煤灰对周边社区造成的深远影响而其所揭示的真相令她深感不安

She proceeded to articulate her lingering apprehensions regarding other facets of data centers, such as the excessive appropriation of land resources and the potential encroachment upon the well-being of proximate residents.

她继而指出对数据中心的其他层面亦心存隐忧诸如土地资源的过度占用以及对邻近居民福祉的潜在干扰

She remarked, "The advancement of data centers has wrought a profound and deleterious impact upon our community; within the MAHA movement, a multitude of our colleagues have been profoundly disheartened, even stricken with anguish, by this state of affairs.

她言道:“数据中心之推进于吾辈社区所施之负面影响,实为深重;MAHA运动中众多同仁对此深感失望乃至痛心疾首

The votes we cast were all directed toward those who hold health and safety as their paramount guiding principles."

吾辈之所投选票皆归于那些将健康与安全奉为圭臬之人。”

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