In Silicon Valley, AI data center boom meets local resistance在硅谷，人工智能数据中心的蓬勃发展遭遇了当地的阻力
SAN JOSE, California, Sept 17 (Reuters) - In Silicon Valley's biggest city, residents and environmental groups are organizing against a wave of proposed data center projects that officials have courted in a bid to position the city as a hub for AI infrastructure.
FILE PHOTO: Cables fill a data center built to run software and other tests on networking chips as Broadcom prepares to launch new optical chip tech to fend off Nvidia in San Jose, California, U.S., September 5, 2025. REUTERS/Brittany Hosea-Small/File Photo
SAN JOSE, California, Sept 17 (Reuters) - In Silicon Valley's biggest city, residents and environmental groups are organizing against a wave of proposed data center projects that officials have courted in a bid to position the city as a hub for AI infrastructure.
The clash highlights a challenge confronting policymakers nationwide: how to support an industry viewed by government and business leaders as critical to economic competitiveness while responding to growing public concerns about the electricity, water and pollution impacts of the infrastructure required to power it.
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加州圣何塞，9 月 17 日（路透社）——在硅谷最大的城市圣何塞，居民和环保团体正在组织起来，反对一系列拟建的数据中心项目。官员们为了将该市定位为人工智能基础设施中心，一直在积极争取这些项目。
这场冲突凸显了全国政策制定者面临的一个挑战：如何在支持一个被政府和商业领袖视为对经济竞争力至关重要的行业的同时，回应公众对为其提供动力的基础设施所带来的电力、水和污染影响日益增长的担忧。
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