美国税改革组织称，该提案将提高所有用户的电子邮件、云存储和社交媒体使用成本
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参议院财政委员会民主党最高议员提出了对数据中心增税的提案，批评者称此举可能推高几乎所有美国人日常使用的服务成本。
参议院议员罗恩·怀登（D-俄勒冈州）上周发布了一份白皮书提案，呼吁取消对数据中心的税收优惠，并对在美国运营的数据中心征收持续税款。怀登提案的批评者认为，新税的成本最终可能会转嫁到所有美国人身上，推高日常服务的成本。
“任何使用互联网的人都将缴纳这项税款。对数据中心征税，就是对你的电子邮件、家庭照片、小企业运营、云存储，以及你的Instagram、X、TikTok和Facebook帖子征税，”美国税改革组织创新技术主管詹姆斯·欧文说道。“怀登参议员背叛了自己作为全民免费开放互联网倡导者的政治遗产。”
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【配图】2025年10月3日，美国华盛顿特区国会大厦，美国参议员罗恩·怀登（D-OR）离开参议院民主党会议。因国会与白宫未能达成融资协议，联邦政府周三早些时候停摆。（凯文·迪奇/盖蒂图片社）
美国税改革组织将怀登的提案称为“全国互联网税”。
福克斯新闻数字频道周一联系怀登办公室寻求置评，但未得到回应。
怀登的白皮书承认，对数据中心征税存在一定难度，因为这类设施非常普遍，应用范围也极广。
“一般来说，数据中心是指主要包含用于处理、存储和传输数字信息的电子设备的设施，可以是独立建筑，也可以是在更大结构内、使用环境控制设备来维持电子设备运行所需适宜条件的场所，”白皮书写道。“仅这一定义就范围广泛，因此将制定豁免条款，将税收聚焦于普遍认知中的数据中心，而非将附带运营错误地纳入征税范围。”
为解决这一问题，怀登建议将“互联网基础设施”排除在拟议的征税范围之外，但并未定义该术语的含义，也未说明哪些设施将被纳入豁免。不过，该白皮书确实暗示，云计算——这一被众多行业广泛使用的重要互联网基础设施——不会在此次征税豁免范围内。
【配图】周五，唐纳德·特朗普总统在Truth Social上发帖表示支持《大学体育保护法案》。（盖蒂图片社）
除了取消对众多数据中心的税收优惠外，怀登的提案还将对数据中心所有者的总收入而非利润征收“个位数百分比”的年度税款。
尽管怀登将土地使用、当地电价和当地水资源消耗作为推动其提出新税收的关切点，但他同时主张对地球轨道上建造的任何数据中心征税。
“特朗普总统正在巩固美国在人工智能领域对中国的主导地位，同时确保数据中心为自身使用的电力、水资源和其他公用事业付费，”白宫助理新闻秘书莉兹·赫斯顿在被问及怀登的计划时告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。“总统的务实做法将击败中国，利用这一技术繁荣浪潮，并为工薪家庭和小企业降低成本、创造新机遇。”
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【配图】数据中心开发在得州如火如荼，北得州在该行业全球领先市场的新排名中位居榜首。（米卡拉·康普顿/奥斯汀美国人报/盖蒂图片社）
怀登的提案与唐纳德·特朗普总统推动加快人工智能开发并扩大相关基础设施建设的举措相冲突。虽然怀登寻求优先援助因数据中心建设而受到影响的工人和社区，但特朗普政府则强调保持经济增长，确保美国在技术领域对中国保持领先优势。
双方确实存在共同点，都希望限制数据中心建设对能源和水价的影响，不过总统的解决方式有所不同。一名白宫官员告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，政府已召集200多家公用事业公司、数据中心开发商、合作社和州级领导人加入其“纳税人保护承诺”倡议，该倡议将不同利益相关方联合起来，助力建设更多能源资源以维持低价。
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不过，怀登这位俄勒冈州参议员的提议，并不如佛蒙特州独立参议员伯尼·桑德斯和纽约州民主党众议员亚历山德里亚·奥卡西奥-科特兹所倡导的全面暂停数据中心建设的呼声那么激进。
Top Senate Dem’s new tax idea gets torched as critics warn nearly every American could pay
Americans for Tax Reform says the proposal would raise costs on email, cloud storage, and social media for all users
2026-08-10T19:00:59-04:00 / Fox News
By Robert Schmad, Fox News
Published August 10, 2026 7:00pm EDT
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The top Democratic lawmaker on the Senate Finance Committee has floated increasing taxes on data centers, a move critics say could raise costs on services used by practically all Americans.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., released a white paper proposal last week calling to end tax incentives for data centers and to impose an ongoing tax on data centers operating in the United States. Critics of Wyden’s proposal argue that the costs of the new tax could ultimately be borne by all Americans by increasing the costs of common services.
“This tax will be paid by anyone who uses the internet. A tax on data centers is a tax on your email, family photos, small business operations, cloud storage, and your Instagram, X, TikTok and Facebook posts,” Americans for Tax Reform director of innovation technology James Erwin said. “Senator Wyden is betraying his legacy as a champion of a free and open internet accessible to all.”
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U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) leaves a Senate Democratic meeting at the U.S. Capitol Building on Oct. 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. The federal government shut down early Wednesday after Congress and the White House failed to reach a funding deal.(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Americans for Tax Reform dubbed Wyden’s proposal a “national internet tax.”
Wyden’s office did not respond to a request for comment when reached by Fox News Digital on Monday.
Wyden’s white paper acknowledges that there is some difficulty in applying a tax to data centers, given how common such facilities are and how wide their utilization is.
“Generally, a data center is a facility that primarily contains electronic equipment used to process, store, and transmit digital information, and may be free-standing or within a larger structure that uses environmental control equipment to maintain the proper conditions for the operation of electronic equipment,” the white paper reads. “This definition alone would be broad, so carveouts would be developed to focus the tax on data centers as commonly understood, rather than trip-wiring ancillary operations into the tax.”
To solve this problem, Wyden suggests excluding “internet infrastructure” from his proposed tax, but does not define what that term means or what kinds of facilities it would cover. The paper does, however, suggest that cloud computing, a highly important piece of internet infrastructure used by many industries, would not be exempted under his tax.
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In addition to excluding data centers from many tax incentives, Wyden’s proposal would hit their owners with a “low single-digit” annual tax on gross receipts, not their profits.
Though Wyden cites land use, local power prices and local water use as the concerns that prompted him to propose the new taxes, he also advocates for taxing any data centers that are built in the Earth’s orbit.
“President Trump is cementing American AI dominance over China while ensuring data centers pay for their own power, water and other utilities,” White House assistant press secretary Liz Huston told Fox News Digital when asked about the Wyden plan. “The President’s commonsense approach will beat China, harness this technological boom and deliver lower costs and new opportunities for working families and small businesses.”
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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)
Wyden’s proposal clashes with President Donald Trump’s push to accelerate artificial intelligence development and expand the infrastructure supporting it. While Wyden seeks to prioritize assistance for workers and communities disrupted by data center construction, the Trump administration emphasizes maintaining economic growth and ensuring the United States retains a technological edge over China.
The two do have common ground in seeking to limit the impact of data center construction on energy and water prices, though the president has a different way of going about that. A White House official told Fox News Digital that the administration has brought together over 200 utilities, data center developers, cooperatives and state leaders into its “Ratepayer Protection Pledge,” an initiative uniting different stakeholders to facilitate to creation of more energy sources to keep prices low.
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The Oregon senator’s approach, however, is less aggressive than the calls for a total moratorium on data center construction, which Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. have advocated for.
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