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The House passes a bill seeking to mitigate the impact of data centers on energy costs

The House passes a bill seeking to mitigate the impact of data centers on energy costs

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September 18th, 2026

The House passes a bill seeking to mitigate the impact of data centers on energy costs

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On Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed a bill by an overwhelming majority aimed at obliging artificial intelligence data centers to foot the bill for their enormous energy consumption.

众议院于周三以压倒性多数通过了一项法案旨在责成人工智能数据中心为其庞大的能源消耗买单

Lawmakers seized what is expected to be their final legislative day in Washington before the midterm elections to respond to voters' mounting concerns.

议员们利用预计中期选举前在华盛顿的最后一个议事日回应了选民日益加剧的关切

The legislation would oblige state utility regulators to consider a standard under which utility companies would be compelled to charge data centers the full cost of the additional electricity and transmission upgrades required to serve them.

该立法将责成州公用事业监管机构考量一项标准据此强制公用事业公司向数据中心征收为其提供服务所必需的新增电力及输电升级的全部成本

The bill passed by a vote of 417 to 3.

该法案以417票对3票获得通过

Proponents of the bill have hailed it as a "modest first step" toward shielding households and businesses from the burden of escalating utility bills.

该法案的拥护者将其誉为使家庭与企业免遭公用事业账单攀升之累的“温和的第一步”。

In essence, the bill offers only federal-level recommendations, while leaving regulatory authority over electricity markets firmly in the hands of individual states.

该法案实质上仅提供联邦层面的建议同时仍将电力市场的监管权保留于各州手中

"I assure you all that this bill is by no means the end of our examination of these issues.

我向诸位保证这项法案绝非我们审视这些议题的终点

It is merely a beginning," said Representative Frank Pallone, the senior Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

这仅仅是一个开端,”众议院能源和商业委员会资深民主党人弗兰克·帕隆众议员如是说

A number of lawmakers are urging a comprehensive moratorium on the construction of artificial intelligence data centers until safeguards are put in place to ensure the safety and efficacy of AI, and to ensure that such data centers do not drive up utility prices or inflict environmental harm.

若干议员正敦促全面叫停人工智能数据中心的建设直至建立起相应的保障机制以确保人工智能的安全性与有效性并确保此类数据中心不致推高公用事业价格或对环境造成损害

Meanwhile, this week more than a hundred Democrats signed a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson, imploring the House to remain in session this month until Congress advances meaningful AI safeguards.

与此同时本周逾百名民主党人联署致函众议院议长迈克·约翰逊吁请众议院于本月继续召开会议直至国会推进具有实质意义的人工智能保障措施

Johnson stated that the bill passed by the House "strikes a precise balance between safeguarding local communities and sustaining America's position at the forefront of artificial intelligence development."

约翰逊称,众议院通过的这项法案“在捍卫地方社区与维系美国于人工智能发展最前沿之间达成了精准的平衡”。

The debate surrounding the bill has offered a range of perspectives, each with its own merits, for weighing the pros and cons of data centers.

围绕该法案展开的辩论为审视数据中心利弊得失提供了见仁见智的视角

Steve Scalise, the House Majority Leader and a Republican from Louisiana, pointed out that a data center built in Richland Parish in his home state had, through the resulting increase in tax revenue, delivered bonuses of up to $50,000 to local teachers.

众议院多数党领袖路易斯安那州共和党人史蒂夫·斯卡利斯指出在其家乡州里奇兰教区兴建的一座数据中心凭借税收的增长为当地教师带来了最高达5万美元的奖金

"These are precisely the kinds of narratives you hear in communities that welcome data centers with open arms," Scalise remarked.

“这些恰恰是你在那些欢迎数据中心入驻的社区里所听闻的种种叙事,”斯卡利斯如是说。

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本网站系受reCAPTCHA机制以及Google隐私权政策与服务条款之双重庇护所保障。

Nevertheless, Palon pointed out that the American public harbours profound anxieties about what data centres actually mean for them, adding that President Donald Trump and Republican congressional leaders have simply cast those concerns aside.

然而帕隆指出美国民众对于数据中心之于自身的切实意涵怀有深切的忧虑并补充道唐纳德·特朗普总统与共和党国会领导人却将这些忧虑弃置不顾。

He further noted that Trump asserted in a social media post that any community opposing data centres must be willingly consigning itself to ending up as a "backward and impoverished" place.

他进一步指出特朗普在社交媒体上发文声称那些反对数据中心的社区必定是甘愿最终沦为落后和贫穷之地

"In my view, the president has become detached from reality on this issue, whereas what the American people are demanding is tangible action," Parrott said.

“依我之见,总统在此议题上已然脱离实际,而美国人民所诉求的乃是切实的行动,”帕隆如是说。

According to a recent poll conducted jointly by the Reporters-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the University of Chicago's Energy Policy Institute, nearly two-thirds of Americans express extreme or very serious concern about the impact of data centers on energy prices, while an additional 57 percent of respondents harbor an equivalent degree of anxiety regarding the effects on water supply.

根据Reporters-NORC公共事务研究中心与芝加哥大学能源政策研究所联合开展的一项最新民调,近三分之二的美国人对数据中心之于能源价格的影响表示极其或非常担忧,另有57%的受访者对供水所受影响持同等程度的忧虑。

Gabe Evans, the Republican congressman from Colorado who sponsored the bill, pointed out that the choice facing the United States boils down to this: either commit to building up its own power system to fully meet demand, or depend on supplies from countries such as China in the realm of digital infrastructure.

该法案的发起人、科罗拉多州共和党众议员加布·埃文斯指出,美国面临的抉择无非是:要么着力建设本国电力系统以充分满足需求,要么在数字基础设施领域仰赖中国等国的供给。

"We must not build this kind of growth on the backs of Americans who are straining to pay their electricity bills at the end of the month," Evans said.

“我们断不能将此种增长构筑于美国人月末竭力偿付电费的基础之上,”埃文斯如是说。

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