Trump calls for AI data centers to share profits with communities and deliver surplus power
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US President Trump posted on Truth Social, calling on data center builders and major AI cloud providers to pay revenue dividends to their host communities to address rising energy costs and make data centers more readily accepted by local communities. He also demanded that data centers, in addition to generating their own power, must supply surplus electricity to local communities free of charge or sell it to them. Reports say communities across the US continue to protest AI data center projects over rising electricity prices, noise, water shortages and other issues. Hazel Township in Pennsylvania once proposed paying $10,000 in compensation to residents who agreed to have data centers built, but many residents still opposed it.
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Trump proposed that data centers share profits with communities and deliver surplus power, reflecting that the implementation of US AI infrastructure is encountering local resistance.
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10月22日，美国总统特朗普在Truth Social发帖，呼吁数据中心建设方与大型AI云厂商向所在社区支付收益分红，以此应对能源涨价问题，甚至实现电价下调，让数据中心更容易获得当地社区接纳。
特朗普警告称，数据中心不仅要像他此前提出的那样自行发电，还必须将多余电力输送给当地社区，可以无偿供给，也可以对外出售。他表示，某些原本极不受欢迎的数据中心项目，在达成经济协议后获得了当地大力支持，并呼吁“达成协议，推进建设”。
有报道指出，美国各地社区一直在抗议AI数据中心项目，核心原因是这类设施带来电价上涨、噪音污染、水资源短缺、空气污染及森林砍伐等问题。特朗普政府此前已下令这类企业自行发电，近期还通过法案要求数据中心承担电网升级费用，避免由地方居民税收承担。
据《华尔街日报》此前报道，在美国宾夕法尼亚州黑兹尔镇，如果这里的居民同意建设数据中心，他们就可以获得1万美元。尽管这笔现金补偿颇具吸引力，但许多当地居民仍反对建设数据中心。