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9月16日（路透社）——美国众议院最快将于周三就两党法案进行投票，该法案旨在抑制与支持人工智能的数据中心扩张相关的电费上涨。
此次投票之际，全美各地的政府官员都面临着压力，需要采取措施防止数据中心电力需求飙升的成本转嫁给普通家庭。
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《纳税人保护法案》 将要求各州公用事业监管机构考虑包括数据中心在内的大型电力用户是否应当承担为其供电所需的电力基础设施的增量成本。该法案由佛罗里达州民主党众议员凯西·卡斯特与科罗拉多州共和党众议员加布·埃文斯共同提出。
该法案获得两党支持，预计将在众议院获得通过，这在国会中实属罕见的共识。目前，政策制定者正寻求在11月中期选举前平衡经济增长、电网可靠性与消费者负担能力。
美国众议院民主党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯在本周的新闻发布会上对该法案表示支持。他称其为“恰当的进步举措”，但补充道“还需要采取更明确的行动”。
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前联邦能源监管委员会成员艾莉森·克莱门茨表示，该法案并非变革性举措，但传递了重要信号。
“这项针对纳税人的法案确实只是朝着正确方向迈出的相对温和的一步，”克莱门茨说道。“它的价值在于，若能获得两党支持并通过，它将表明国会始终与保护消费者的优先事项保持一致，以应对所有这些新增的必要投资和需求增长。”
支持全国范围内暂停新建数据中心项目的环保组织“食品与水观察”表示，该法案仅 narrowly 聚焦于电力成本，未能解决数据中心对水资源、污染和社区造成的更广泛担忧。
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US House to vote on data center power cost bill
2026-09-16 11:03:19 UTC / Reuters
By Reuters
September 16, 2026 11:03 AM UTC Updated 55 mins ago
A drone view shows construction underway on Microsoft’s ATL11 data center in Union City, Georgia, U.S., September 1, 2026. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
Sept 16 (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote as soon as Wednesday on bipartisan legislation that seeks to rein in electricity bill increases tied to the expansion of data centers that support artificial intelligence.
The vote comes as government officials nationwide are under pressure to take steps to prevent the soaring cost of data center power needs from being passed on to average households.
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The Ratepayer Protection Act would require state utility regulators to consider whether large electricity users, including data centers, should bear the incremental costs of the power infrastructure needed to serve them. It was introduced by Representative Kathy Castor, a Democrat from Florida, and Gabe Evans, a Colorado Republican.
The bill has bipartisan backing and is expected to pass the House, an uncommon point of agreement in Congress as policymakers seek ways to balance economic growth, grid reliability and consumer affordability ahead of the midterm elections in November.
U.S. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, at a press conference this week, gave his blessing to the bill. He called it an “appropriate step forward” but added that “more clearly needs to be done.”
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Former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission member Allison Clements said the measure was not transformative, but sent an important message.
“This particular ratepayer bill is really one relatively modest step in the right direction,” Clements said. “It holds value in that it’s signaling, should it pass on a bipartisan basis, that Congress continues to be aligned with the priorities of protecting customers in the face of all of this new needed investment and demand growth.”
Environmental group Food & Water Watch, which favors a nationwide pause on new data center development, said the legislation focuses narrowly on electricity costs while failing to address broader concerns about data centers’ impacts on water resources, pollution and communities.
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Reporting by Nichola Groom in Los Angeles and Richard Cowan in Washington; Editing by Stephen Coates
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