总统称数据中心“规模或超石油业”，而德州正踩下刹车
2026年8月13日 美国东部时间早上6:00 / 福克斯新闻
作者：阿曼达·马西亚斯
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达拉斯 — 人工智能热潮正推动德州掀起数据中心建设热潮，同时也在总统唐纳德·特朗普与其最亲密的政治盟友之一、共和党州长格雷格·阿博特之间制造了罕见的分歧。
为德州带来数十亿美元投资的项目同时也会产生巨大的电力需求，这引发了一个疑问：谁将为可能出现的电网影响承担费用。阿博特已着手解决这些担忧，他指示监管机构确保数据中心承担为其服务所需的基础设施成本，并呼吁开发商自行增加发电能力，而非将成本转嫁给德州居民。
特朗普对阿博特的做法不满，称这个孤星州（德州别称）对数据中心的立场是一个“错误”，并指出这些项目能为愿意接纳它们的社区带来经济投资。
德州州长阿博特暂停全州电网审计前的新数据中心项目
包括州长格雷格·阿博特在内的德州领导人一直致力于将该州打造成大型数据中心开发的目的地，尽管官员们仍在应对新项目可能给电网带来的压力。（杰伊·詹纳/《奥斯汀美国人报》通过盖蒂图片社拍摄）
总统将能源主导地位和美国在人工智能领域的领导力作为其第二任期的核心支柱。
“德州拒绝数据中心是个错误，因为这个产业的规模或超过石油业，”特朗普在周五发布的采访中告诉《Punchbowl News》。
“数据中心的规模可能超过石油业，”他预言道。
德州已成为这场辩论的焦点，因为对人工智能和云服务背后计算能力的需求飙升，推动全州掀起数据中心开发浪潮。
白宫和阿博特的办公室均未回应福克斯新闻数字频道就两人在数据中心问题上的分歧置评的请求。
根据世邦魏理仕（Cushman & Wakefield）2026年全球数据中心市场对比报告，达拉斯现已跻身全球头号主要数据中心市场。这一排名凸显了德州的快速崛起——企业纷纷寻求支持人工智能所需的土地和电力资源。
该公司表示，德州的增长速度最终有望比肩甚至超越目前以运营容量计的全球最大数据中心市场弗吉尼亚州。
美国南部某州跃升为全球增长最快产业之一的头号市场
总统唐纳德·特朗普将扩大美国能源生产和加快人工智能发展作为其第二任期议程的关键优先事项。（邦妮·卡什/合众国际社/彭博社通过盖蒂图片社拍摄）
然而，这种增长加剧了人们对大型设施给德州电力系统带来压力的审视。
巴鲁彭（BaRupOn）公司正在德州开发一个数据中心园区，该公司首席运营官巴拉吉·塔马巴图拉（Balaji Tammabattula）告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，特朗普最近对州长的反对“确实很有帮助”。他表示，部分基于该州历来的营商友好环境，企业已经向德州的项目投入了大量资金。
“很多公司在德州投入了巨额资金，而突然间他（阿博特）改变了立场，”塔马巴图拉说。“我认为，这在未来可能会成为一个棘手的问题。”
塔马巴图拉解释称，巴鲁彭占地700英亩的园区在这场日益激烈的电网准入之争中多少有些优势，因为其位于休斯顿地区的园区将自行发电，而非依赖州内电网。
特朗普的大胆能源押注或将在全球石油天然气消耗量创新高之际大获全胜
德州的 data center 开发热潮愈演愈烈，北德州在一项新的全球行业领先市场排名中登顶。（米卡拉·康普顿/《奥斯汀美国人报》通过盖蒂图片社拍摄）
塔马巴图拉表示，巴鲁彭已经开始建设自身的基础设施，包括天然气管道和涡轮机，以打造他所谓的“孤岛式电力园区”。
“即使我们想接入电网，未来三年内也没有可行路径，”他说。
随着德州推动数据中心更多依赖自身发电能力，这种限制现在可能对巴鲁彭有利。塔马巴图拉表示，一年多来，该公司一直主张采用现场发电，即表后电力，作为满足数据中心巨大电力需求而不加剧电网压力的一种方式。
“对我们来说，这无疑是有利的，因为这证明了我们过去一年半到两年来一直在宣扬的观点，”他说。
塔马巴图拉也承认了反对该行业快速扩张的担忧，尤其是为新设施供应大量电力的成本可能落在居民身上的可能性。
美国最老牌制造商之一称人工智能正在创造就业岗位——而非取代它们
人工智能热潮正加速全德州对数据中心的需求，因为企业需要更多空间、电力和基础设施来支持日益密集的计算需求。（布兰登·贝尔/盖蒂图片社）
德州面临的挑战是，既要容纳向该州投入数十亿美元的产业，又不让居民承担支持该产业所需的基础设施成本。
塔马巴图拉表示，随着对数据中心的需求持续增长，这种紧张局势不太可能消失。
“这些数据中心必须建成，”他说。“在真正的解决方案出台之前，这种情况将长期持续下去。”
“在我看来，这必须由政府来解决。”
阿曼达·马西亚斯报道商业、经济与政治的交叉领域，重点关注政策决策如何塑造市场、企业和美国工人。
Trump heads toward unlikely clash with close ally over future of multibillion-dollar industry
The president claims data centers ‘could be bigger than oil’ as Texas pumps the breaks
August 13, 2026 6:00am EDT / Fox News
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DALLAS —The artificial intelligence boom is fueling a data center rush in Texas and opening a rare divide between President Donald Trump and one of his closest political allies — Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.
Projects bringing billions of dollars in investment to Texas also create enormous demand for electricity, raising questions over who will be on the hook to pay for potential power grid impacts. Abbott has moved to address those concerns, directing regulators to ensure data centers cover the infrastructure costs needed to serve them and calling on developers to add their own power generation rather than shift costs onto Texas residents.
Trump isn’t happy with Abbott’s approach and called the Lone Star State’s stance toward data centers a “mistake,” pointing to the economic investment the projects can bring to communities willing to host them.
TEXAS GOV. ABBOTT EFFECTIVELY PAUSES NEW DATA CENTER PROJECTS PENDING STATEWIDE GRID AUDIT
Texas leaders, including Gov. Greg Abbott, have sought to position the state as a destination for large-scale data center development even as officials grapple with the strain new projects could place on the electric grid.(Jay Janner/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images)
The president has made energy dominance and U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence central pillars of his second term.
“For Texas to say no to data centers is a mistake in the sense that it could be bigger than oil,” Trump told Punchbowl News in an interview published Friday.
“Data centers could be bigger than oil,” he predicted.
Texas has become a focal point of that debate as soaring demand for the computing power behind artificial intelligence and cloud services drives a wave of data center development across the state.
Neither the White House nor Abbott’s office responded to Fox News Digital’s request for comment on the departure between the two on data centers.
Dallas now ranks as the world’s No. 1 primary data center market, according to Cushman & Wakefield’s 2026 Global Data Center Market Comparison. The ranking underscores the Lone Star State’s rapid rise as companies seek the land and electricity needed to support artificial intelligence.
The firm said the state is growing at a pace that could eventually rival or surpass Virginia, currently the world’s largest data center market by operating capacity.
A SOUTHERN STATE JUST TOOK THE TOP SPOT IN ONE OF THE WORLD’S FASTEST-GROWING INDUSTRIES
President Donald Trump has made expanding U.S. energy production and accelerating artificial intelligence development key priorities of his second-term agenda.(Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
That growth, however, has intensified scrutiny of the strain large-scale facilities place on Texas’ power system.
Balaji Tammabattula, chief operating officer of BaRupOn, which is developing a data center campus in Texas, told Fox News Digital that Trump’s recent pushback on the governor was “really helpful.” He said companies have already committed significant amounts of money to projects in Texas based in part on the state’s historically business-friendly environment.
“A lot of companies made huge investments into Texas, and now all of a sudden he [Abbott] changed his stance,” Tammabattula said. “That, I think, could be a problematic situation going forward.”
Tammabattula explained that BaRupOn’s 700-acre campus is somewhat insulated from the growing fight over grid access because its Houston-area campus is being built to generate its own power rather than rely on the state’s electric grid.
TRUMP’S AMBITIOUS ENERGY BET COULD BE A WINNING HAND AS THE WORLD BURNS MORE OIL, GAS THAN EVER
Data center development is surging across Texas, with North Texas taking the top spot in a new global ranking of the industry’s leading markets.(Mikala Compton/The Austin American-Statesman/Getty Images)
Tammabattula said BaRupOn began building its own infrastructure, including natural gas pipelines and turbines, to create what he called an “islanded power campus.”
“Even if we want to connect it to the grid, we don’t have a pathway for the next three years,” he said.
That constraint could now work in BaRupOn’s favor as Texas pushes data centers to rely more heavily on their own power generation. Tammabattula said the company has advocated for on-site power generation, known as behind-the-meter power, for more than a year as a way to meet the enormous electricity demands of data centers without adding to the strain on the grid.
“For us, it definitely is beneficial because it proves what we’ve been trying to say for the last one and a half, two years,” he said.
Tammabattula also acknowledged the concerns fueling opposition to the industry’s rapid expansion, particularly the possibility that the cost of supplying massive amounts of electricity to new facilities could fall on residents.
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The AI boom is accelerating demand for data centers across Texas as companies seek more space, power and infrastructure to support increasingly intensive computing needs.(Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
The challenge for Texas is finding a way to accommodate an industry pouring billions of dollars into the state without leaving residents to shoulder the costs of the infrastructure needed to support it.
Tammabattula said the tension is unlikely to disappear as demand for data centers continues to grow.
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“These data centers have to be built,” he said. “Until an actual solution comes up, this is going to continue for the long term.”
“And in my opinion, that has to come from the government.”
Amanda Macias covers the intersection of business, economics and politics, with a focus on how policy decisions shape markets, businesses and American workers.
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