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随着科技公司在席卷全球的人工智能热潮中投入数万亿美元建设新的数据中心，包括圣路易斯在内的美国各地社区正卷入一场高风险的博弈。
在这座密苏里州城市，占地一百万平方英尺的旧仓库区正引发巨大争议，TerraWatt公司首席执行官戴维·达内什弗鲁兹计划在此开发数据中心。
“圣路易斯有大量老旧、濒临废弃且未得到充分利用的基础设施，”达内什弗鲁兹在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时表示，“如果负责任地推进，数据中心有机会为这些社区重新带回产业。”
但对当地许多居民而言，这番推销说辞并未奏效。而且并非只有他们持反对态度。最近的一项盖洛普民调显示，超过70%的美国人不希望在自家附近建设数据中心。
圣路易斯大学生物学家凯西·福勒-芬恩是周五提起的诉讼的原告之一，该诉讼旨在叫停这一开发项目。她担心数据中心会带来噪音、水资源消耗、电力消耗等一系列问题。
“目前尚未开展任何环境影响评估，也没有进行低频声音研究，”她在采访中告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻。
“许多宣称的效果实际上并没有数据支撑，”她补充道，称目前“环境影响、噪音影响方面都缺乏透明度”。
这场辩论的核心背景是数据中心助力支撑的人工智能技术。
“我认为人们对人工智能的担忧其实更多源于未知，”达内什弗鲁兹说道。
但福勒-芬恩并不认同这一观点。
“这并非毫无根据的恐慌，”她说，“这种担忧是基于真实的科学证据。我们必须极为谨慎地选择建设这些大型数据中心的地点和方式。”
不过达内什弗鲁兹声称，不在美国本土建设数据中心可能会危及美国人的数据安全。
“这些信息和数据将存储在哪里？你更愿意它们被存放在美国中部的这类地区，还是存放在我们无法监管或控制的国家？”他说道。
开发商承诺将自行承担电力成本、采用封闭式水循环系统，并向当地学校系统投入数亿美元。这一策略在其他城市取得了成功，但在圣路易斯尚未获得认可。
St. Louis becomes the latest battleground in fight over data centers
2026-08-31T22:11:00-0400 / CBS News
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As tech companies pour trillions of dollars into new data centers as part of the ongoing AI boom sweeping the globe, communities across the U.S., including St. Louis, are finding themselves in the middle of a high-stakes fight.
A million square feet of old warehouse space in the Missouri city has turned into a mountain of controversy as David Daneshforooz, CEO of TerraWatt, plans to develop a data center there.
“St. Louis has a lot of old, kind of decaying infrastructure that’s being underutilized,” Daneshforooz told CBS News. “And so data centers have the opportunity, if done responsibly, to bring back industry into those communities.”
But for many in the community, the sales pitch has fallen flat. And they’re not alone. A recent Gallup poll found that more than 70% of Americans don’t want data centers in their area.
Kasey Fowler-Finn, a biologist at Saint Louis University, is a plaintiff in a lawsuit, filed on Friday, seeking to halt the development. She’s concerned about noise, water use, electricity use and more.
“There’s been no environmental impact assessment and no low-frequency sound study,” she told CBS News.
“A lot of claims are being made that don’t actually have data to back it up,” she added, saying there’s “a lack of transparency about the environmental impact, about the noise impact.”
Looming over the debate is the technology that data centers help support.
“The AI side of it, I think, is just really out of fear. It’s the unknown,” Daneshforooz said.
But Fowler-Finn disagrees.
“It is not a baseless panic,” she said. “It is a worry that’s based in real scientific evidence. We have to be very careful about where and how we install these large data centers.”
Daneshforooz, however, claims that not putting data centers in the U.S. could compromise Americans’ data.
“Where is that information and data going to be stored? Would you rather have it be in a place like this in the middle of America, or would you rather have that information be stored in a country that we can’t regulate or control?” he said.
The developers are promising to pay for their own electricity, use a closed system for water and invest hundreds of millions into the local school system. It’s a playbook that’s worked in other cities, but not yet in St. Louis.
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