2026-08-31T20:11:28.032Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/31/politics/vance-trump-data-centers
唐纳德·特朗普总统在中期选举前的诸多举动想必都让其所在政党感到不安。其中最突出的一点，便是他对饱受诟病的人工智能数据中心的狂热支持。
周一，他与副总统J·D·万斯就此话题发表的截然不同的言论，凸显了共和党在信息传递上的困境。
万斯在前往密歇根州的行程中就该问题给出了非常细致周全的回应，而数据中心预计将在该州参议院及其他公职选举中扮演重要角色。
“我认为，民众对数据中心的反对声浪，有99%都出现在这样的地区：新建数据中心意味着当地居民的公用事业费用和电费都会上涨，”万斯说道。
他补充道，数据中心“应当向电网输送电力，而非从中取电。如果能做到这一点，我认为数据中心不会引发太大争议。真正的问题在于当地电费大幅上涨的时候。”
但就在数小时前特朗普在社交媒体上谈论该话题时，这种细致周全的考量以及对反对数据中心的民众的共情，并未出现在他的表态中。
“全美各地的社区之所以不愿接纳数据中心，唯一的原因就是他们想变得落后又贫穷，”特朗普在帖子中写道。
他还补充道：“如果他们想要成功致富，坐拥更低的税负和遍地的工作机会，那就让数据中心大行其道。”
所以，这本质上就是“我懂你的难处”与“让数据中心大行其道”的对立。
万斯强调，民众对这些数据中心存在合理的担忧。但特朗普却表示，从根本上来说，反对数据中心的唯一理由就是你愚蠢无知。
这不过是特朗普一连串大力支持数据中心的表态中的最新一例。民调显示，多达七成美国人不希望在自家社区附近建设数据中心。几乎没有美国人像特朗普这样热衷于数据中心，特朗普甚至曾称赞这些巨型建筑有多赏心悦目。
万斯的言论与特朗普的表态如此不一致，还有另一个原因：特朗普基本上称万斯提出的问题——数据中心推高能源成本——根本不成问题。
事实上，特朗普声称该问题早在近六个月前就已解决。
他在3月4日的一场活动中作出了这一宣告，当时他推出了一项计划，呼吁开发商自愿承诺数据中心建设不会推高民众的电费。
“他们需要一些公关帮助，因为人们认为如果附近建起数据中心，电价就会上涨，”特朗普说道。“但事实并非如此。电价不会上涨。对于那些确实出现过电价上涨的地区，今后也不会再发生了。”
五个月后的8月4日，特朗普声称数据中心“不会”从社区取电，甚至宣称它们对能源而言是净收益。
“它们拥有大量富余电力，会以极低的价格卖给电网，”特朗普在福克斯新闻节目中说道。“所以我们会获得越来越多的电力——而且一分钱不用花。”
他甚至在8月21日声称，“根据我的要求，数据中心现在必须自行发电，所以它们不会从电网取电。”
“这还会降低电价，”他补充道。
但这并非事实。特朗普似乎是在提及所谓的“表后发电厂”，即数据中心可用于自行发电的设施。但美国并没有相关联邦强制令；就连特朗普在3月推出的计划，本质上也不过是呼吁科技公司作出自愿承诺。
这似乎又是特朗普脑中冒出某个念头就放不下的最新案例。但问题不仅在于他不肯罢休；他还需要反复为自己喜欢的事物作出夸张且与事实相悖的辩护。他需要宣扬那些与他意见相左的人必然希望自己“落后又贫穷”。
有人或许会辩称，鉴于美国与中国在人工智能领域的竞争日益激烈，数据中心至关重要，因此必须大力支持它们。考虑到美国民众在这一问题上的态度，这么做甚至可以称得上是有勇气。
但万斯——可能在几个月后就将独立参选总统——的表态却更为温和，这似乎足以说明这一问题的政治考量。
I feel your pain vs. ‘let Data Reign’: How Trump and his VP are out of step on data centers
2026-08-31T20:11:28.032Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/31/politics/vance-trump-data-centers
President Donald Trump is doing plenty of things that must be making his party nervous ahead of the midterm elections. But high on that list is his rah-rah advocacy for much-derided AI data centers.
And his and Vice President JD Vance’s very different comments about the subject Monday underscored the GOP’s messaging problems.
While traveling to Michigan, where data centers are expected to figure significantly in races for Senate and other offices, Vance gave a very nuanced answer on the issue.
“I think probably 99% of the backlash to data centers has come in areas where building a data center means higher utilities and higher electricity for the people on the ground,” Vance said.
He added that data centers “should be putting power back into the grid, not taking it out. And if that is happening, I don’t think the data centers are that controversial. It’s when the utility bills get so much higher; that’s when it’s a real problem.”
But that nuance — and sympathy for people who might object to data centers — wasn’t part of the message when Trump talked about the issue on social media just hours earlier.
“The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backwards and poor,” Trump posted.
He added: “If they want to be successful and rich, with far lower taxes and jobs all over the place, let Data Reign.”
So basically, it’s I feel your pain versus “let Data Reign.”
Vance emphasized that people might have legitimate issues with these data centers. But Trump said the only reason to object to them, basically, is because you’re a dummy.
It’s merely the latest in a string of strong Trump endorsements of data centers, which polls show as many as 7 in 10 Americans don’t want in their communities. Very few Americans share Trump’s affinity for them, which has even involved the president marveling at how attractive the massive buildings are.
The other reason Vance’s comments are so discordant with Trump’s is that Trump has basically said the problem Vance raised — data centers increasing energy costs — is a nonissue.
In fact, Trump claimed that problem was extinguished nearly six months ago.
He made that pronouncement at a March 4 event, when he rolled out a plan to get developers to voluntarily promise that data center construction wouldn’t raise people’s energy bills.
“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. “And that’s not happening. It’s not going to happen. And for the areas where it did happen, it won’t happen anymore.”
Five months later, on August 4, Trump claimed data centers were “not taking” from the community and even claimed they were a net benefit on energy.
“The excess power that they have, which is substantial, they’re selling that back at a very low cost to the grid,” Trump said on Fox News. “So we’re getting more and more electric — costs us nothing.”
He even claimed on August 21 that “the data centers now are mandated by me that they build their own electricity, so they’re not taking it from the grid.”
“It’s going to lower the electric costs,” he added.
But that’s not true. Trump appeared to be referring to so-called behind-the-meter power plants, which data centers can use to produce their own energy. But there is no federal mandate; even the plan Trump rolled out in March basically amounted to asking tech companies to make a voluntary pledge.
This appears to be the latest example of an issue where Trump gets something in his head and just can’t let it go. But it’s not just that he can’t move on; it’s that he also needs to repeatedly make a hyperbolic and counterfactual case for the thing he likes. He needs to talk about how people who disagree with him must want to be “backwards and poor.”
One could argue that data centers are so vital to the growing competition with China over AI that an affirmative case for them needs to be made. You could even call it courageous to do so, given where the American people are on this issue.
But the fact that Vance — who might run for president in his own right starting in a few months — is speaking in more muted tones would seem to say plenty about the politics of this issue.
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