2026-08-11T10:00:29.702Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/11/politics/trump-data-centers
如果说有一个真正贴合当下时代的民粹主义议题，那可能就是反对人工智能数据中心。美国两党议员和候选人在各州都日益明确地站到数据中心扩张的对立面。
而近期的初选结果显示，这是一个颇具影响力的议题。
不过，在越来越多政客纷纷远离数据中心的浪潮中，有一个巨大的例外：唐纳德·特朗普总统及其政府官员，他们对数据中心热情拥抱。
考虑到越来越多民调显示美国人有多痛恨数据中心，且绝大多数人似乎都不希望自家附近出现这类设施，这不过是这位总统最新一个令人费解的政治举动。
近几周来，特朗普为数据中心辩护的论调明显增多。他不仅称数据中心对美国在人工智能领域与中国竞争至关重要，还表示它们对接纳它们的美国社区来说是双赢之举。
早在今年3月，特朗普政府就推出了一项名为“纳税人保护承诺”的倡议，旨在让开发商自愿承诺，数据中心的建设不会推高民众的电费账单。
但即便在当时，特朗普就淡化了这项行政命令的必要性。他暗示，数据中心原本就不会真正推高电费。
“它们需要一些公关帮助，因为人们觉得如果建了数据中心，电价就会上涨，”特朗普说道。
上个月，他严厉批评纽约州民主党州长凯西·霍楚尔签署行政命令暂停新建数据中心。特朗普在社交媒体上称数据中心是“庞大、强劲、亮眼的印钞机”和“摇钱树，能带来更低的税收和创纪录的就业岗位”。
上周，他在接受福克斯新闻采访时表示，“任何拒绝人工智能（数据中心）的社区都犯了大错”，并称数据中心将降低税收并推高房产价值。
他称这是“一件了不起的事”，甚至似乎对有人反对数据中心感到不解。
“这简直就像是有一场针对，你懂的，数据中心的运动，”这位总统说道。
随后在本周晚些时候接受《Punchbowl News》采访时，他将矛头指向了共和党掌控的得克萨斯州，该州已采取措施加强对数据中心建设的监管。
特朗普称数据中心的规模“可能超过石油产业”。
“我不觉得它们有碍观瞻，”他补充道。“我的意思是，我看过一些这类数据中心——这是我见过的最令人惊叹的建筑。它们绵延2.5英里、3英里长。”
特朗普的几乎所有说法都与美国民众的态度背道而驰。
在6月路透社-益普索的一项民调中，45%的美国人反对新建数据中心，仅16%的人支持。
而当数据中心建在自家社区附近时，反对声浪更为强烈。当数据中心距离受访者住所10英里以内时，反对比例升至59%-10%。盖洛普3月的民调显示，70%的美国人反对在“自家区域”建设数据中心。
反对者显然情绪更加激烈。
在上述民调中，仅有3%至7%的人强烈支持在自家附近建设数据中心，而44%至48%的人强烈反对。
虽然61%的美国人在路透社的民调中表示数据中心是必要的，但77%的人希望将它们建在远离社区的偏远地区。
尽管特朗普称数据中心是经济福音，甚至可能“比石油产业规模更大”，但仅有50%的美国人认为它们能创造就业并对经济有益。且仅有六分之一的人持强烈肯定态度，表示这一描述“非常”或“极其”符合数据中心的情况。
尽管特朗普声称数据中心不会或不会推高电价，但在6月初路透社/益普索的民调中，77%的受访者表示数据中心确实推高了电价；而皮尤研究中心3月的民调中，三分之二的人也持相同看法。
最后，根据5月马凯特法学院的一项民调，美国人以压倒性的71%-29%的比例认为，数据中心的成本超过了其带来的好处。
最值得注意的是：所有这些民调都显示，民众对数据中心的反感明显跨越党派界限。共和党人或许更有可能认可数据中心的好处并欢迎它们落户社区，但他们也强烈反对这类设施。
两党共同发起反对并限制数据中心的运动
这种两党共识在全美各地处理该议题的方式中体现得淋漓尽致——且不仅仅是在纽约州和得克萨斯州。已有15个州提出了禁止建设数据中心的法案，覆盖了从深红州到深蓝州的所有地区。
该议题在上周堪萨斯州两党的州长初选中也占据了突出位置，反对数据中心的候选人赢得了两党的初选。（获胜的民主党人、州参议员辛迪·霍尔舍尔此前曾投票支持数据中心建设，如今她已否认该投票，并强烈支持暂停建设数据中心。）俄亥俄州两党州长候选人也都支持暂停建设数据中心。
民主党联邦参议员候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛义德和众议院候选人威廉·劳伦斯在上周密歇根州的初选中胜出，期间他们大力宣扬了反对数据中心的立场。民主党威斯康星州州长候选人弗朗西斯卡·洪也将该议题作为自己的核心竞选主张，有望在周二的初选中复制这一成功。
他们都敏锐地察觉到，这是一个罕见的真正能凝聚民心的议题——一方面因为它直接影响民众的社区生活，另一方面他们担心，数据中心会加剧本已不断上涨的生活成本。
但特朗普似乎做出了不同的政治考量。
Trump loves data centers. Americans hate them
2026-08-11T10:00:29.702Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/11/politics/trump-data-centers
If there’s a true populist issue built for this moment in time, it might be opposition to AI data centers. Lawmakers and candidates from both parties across states are increasingly positioning themselves as critics of data center proliferation.
And recent primary results suggest it’s a pretty potent issue.
There is, however, one big exception to the growing political stampede away from data centers: President Donald Trump and his administration officials, who are bear-hugging them.
It’s merely the latest political head-scratcher from the president, given the growing volume of polls showing just how much Americans hate data centers and overwhelmingly don’t seem to want them in their communities.
Trump’s defenses of data centers have grown substantially in recent weeks. He’s not only pitched them as vital to competing with China on artificial intelligence, but as win-wins for the US communities that welcome them.
Back in March, the administration debuted an initiative called the Ratepayer Protection Pledge, which aimed to get developers to voluntarily promise that data center construction wouldn’t raise people’s energy bills.
But even at the time, Trump downplayed the need for his executive action. He suggested data centers weren’t really raising energy bills in the first place.
“They need some PR help, because people think that if a data center goes in there, electricity prices are going to go up,” Trump said.
Last month, he sharply criticized Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul for signing an executive order halting the construction of new data centers. Trump on social media called them “big, strong, bold, and Money Machines” and “Cash Cows, with Lower Taxes and Record Setting Jobs.”
Last week, he told Fox News that “any community that turns down AI is making a big mistake,” claiming data centers would reduce taxes and make property values go up.
He called it “a tremendous thing” and even seemed to marvel at how anybody could oppose them.
“It’s almost like there’s a campaign against, you know, data centers,” the president said.
And then in an interview with Punchbowl News later in the week, he took aim at GOP-controlled Texas, which moved to more strongly regulate data center construction.
Trump said data centers could be “bigger than oil.”
“I don’t think they’re unsightly,” he added. “I mean, I’m looking at some of these data centers — the most incredible buildings I’ve ever seen. They go for two-and-a-half, three miles.”
Virtually everything Trump is saying is at odds with where the American people are.
Americans opposed the construction of new data centers 45%-16% in a Reuters-Ipsos poll in June.
And the margins grew significantly when it came to building them in their communities. The margin against grew to 59%-10% when the data centers were within 10 miles of the person’s home. Gallup in March showed 7 in 10 Americans opposed building data centers “in your area.”
The passion is clearly on the side of the critics.
Only between 3% and 7% strongly supported the construction of data centers in their areas in the above polls, while between 44% to 48% strongly opposed them.
While 61% of Americans said data centers were necessary in the Reuters poll, 77% wanted them to be built in remote areas away from communities.
Despite Trump’s claims that data centers are economic boons and potentially “bigger than oil,” just 50% of Americans think they create jobs and are good for the economy. And only 1 in 6 feel that way strongly, saying that describes data centers “very” or “extremely” well.
Despite Trump’s claim that data centers aren’t or wouldn’t make electricity more expensive, 77% said they were doing just that in Reuters/Ipsos polling earlier in June, while two-thirds said the same in a March Pew Research Center poll.
And finally, all told, Americans said by a whopping 71%-29% margin that the costs of data centers outweighed the benefits, according a Marquette Law School poll in May.
Most notably: All of these polls suggest it’s a remarkably bipartisan aversion. Republicans are somewhat more likely to see the benefits of data centers and welcome them in their communities, but they’re strongly against them, too.
The bipartisan campaigns against and efforts to rein in data centers
That bipartisanship has made itself clear in how the issue has been addressed across the country — and not just in New York and Texas. Bills banning data center construction have been proposed in 15 states, spanning from deep red to deep blue.
The issue also featured prominently in both parties’ gubernatorial primaries in Kansas last week, with critics winning both primaries. (The Democrat who won, state Sen. Cindy Holscher, disowned a previous vote in favor of data center construction and strongly backed a moratorium.) Both parties’ gubernatorial nominees in Ohio also back a moratorium.
Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and House candidate William Lawrence played up the issue on their way to primary victories in Michigan last week. And Democratic Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong looks to do the same Tuesday after making the issue her calling card.
They’ve all seemed to sense the rare issue that truly galvanizes — both because it directly impacts Americans in their communities and, they worry, is exacerbating their already increasing costs.
But Trump seems to be making a different calculation.
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