2026-04-24 / 路透社
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缅因州州长珍妮特·米尔斯在马萨诸塞州波士顿举行的美国东北部州长与加拿大省长会议上发言时做手势，2025年6月16日，美国。路透社/索菲·帕克
4月24日（路透社）——缅因州民主党州长珍妮特·米尔斯周五否决了一项法案，该法案原本会使缅因州成为美国首个对大型新建数据中心实施建设禁令的州，尽管当地对这种高耗电设施的反对声越来越大。
如果该法案得以签署生效，将暂停审批所有用电量超过20兆瓦的数据中心项目，直至2027年10月，同时由州政府任命的委员会将分析这些项目对当地电网、电费、空气和水质的影响。
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在写给缅因州议会的一封信中，米尔斯表示，她支持对数据中心项目实施临时禁令——并且如果该法案包含针对杰伊镇一个在建数据中心项目的豁免条款，她本会签署这项法案。
“鉴于大型数据中心在其他州对环境和电价造成的影响，实施禁令是合理的。但最终版本的法案未能为杰伊镇的一个特定项目留出空间，而该项目得到了所在社区和地区的强烈支持，”米尔斯说道。
安德罗斯科金造纸厂2023年因锅炉爆炸关闭，导致数百人失业。
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米尔斯表示，在该旧址开发一座价值5.5亿美元的数据中心的工作预计将创造800多个建筑岗位，以及至少100个高薪永久岗位，并将为杰伊镇带来财产税收入。
周五的这项决定反映了政治领导人面临的艰难权衡：必须在数据中心对环境和家庭电费的影响，与它们能够带来的数百万美元投资和税收收入之间做出抉择。
米尔斯还表示，她计划发布一项行政命令，成立一个委员会来审查数据中心在缅因州的影响，并已签署一项法案，禁止数据中心项目享受缅因州的商业发展税收优惠计划。
美国科技巨头今年已承诺在人工智能数据中心上投入超过6000亿美元，这场投资热潮提振了美国经济，被认为是自20世纪90年代末电信繁荣以来规模最大的一次。
但随着对这种扩建的反对声日益高涨，至少11个美国州正在考虑立法，以暂停或限制数据中心的建设，尽管特朗普政府向各州施压，要求其不要插手人工智能监管。
为缓解人们对电费上涨的担忧，华盛顿州上月促使大型科技公司在白宫签署了一项自愿承诺，即它们将承担为数据中心供电的新增发电成本。
两名民主党议员——参议员伯尼·桑德斯和众议员亚历山大·奥卡西奥-科特兹——也提出了一项法案，要求在国会通过人工智能安全立法之前，暂停所有数据中心的建设。
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Maine governor rejects first US state freeze on new data centers
2026-04-24 / Reuters
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Maine Governor Janet Mills gestures while speaking during a meeting of northeastern U.S. Governors and Canadian Premiers in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., June 16, 2025. REUTERS/Sophie Park
April 24 (Reuters) – The Democratic governor of Maine, Janet Mills, on Friday vetoed a bill that would have made it the first U.S. state to impose a moratorium on large new data centers, even as local opposition to the electricity-hungry facilities grows.
If it had been signed into law, the bill would have frozen approvals until October 2027 for data centers requiring more than 20 megawatts of power, while a state-appointed council analyzed their impact on the local grid, electricity bills, air and water.
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In a letter to the Maine legislature, Mills said she supports a temporary moratorium on data center projects – and would have signed the bill if it had included an exemption for a data center project underway in the town of Jay.
“A moratorium is appropriate given the impacts of massive data centers in other states on the environment and on electricity rates. But the final version of this bill fails to allow for a specific project in the Town of Jay that enjoys strong local support from its host community and region,” Mills said.
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Work to develop a $550 million data center on that site is expected to create more than 800 construction jobs and at least 100 high-paying permanent jobs, and would contribute property tax revenue to the town of Jay, Mills said.
The decision on Friday reflects the difficult trade-off facing political leaders who must weigh data centers’ impact on the environment and household energy bills against the millions of dollars in investment and tax revenue they can bring.
Mills also said that she plans to issue an executive order establishing a council to examine the impact of data centers in Maine and has signed a bill to prohibit data center projects from Maine’s business development tax incentive programs.
American tech giants have pledged to spend more than $600 billion on artificial intelligence data centers this year as part of a spending spree that has boosted the U.S. economy and is considered the biggest since the telecom boom of the late 1990s.
But mounting opposition to that buildout has led at least 11 U.S. states to weigh legislation that would halt or restrain development of the facilities, even as the Trump administration pressures states to stay out of AI regulation.
To ease worries about rising electricity bills, Washington last month got big technology companies to sign a voluntary pledge at the White House that they would bear the cost of new electricity generation to power their data centers.
Two Democratic lawmakers – Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – have also introduced legislation to halt all construction on data centers until Congress passes AI safety legislation.
Reporting by Aditya Soni in Bengaluru, Chris Thomas and Mrinmay Dey in Mexico City; Editing by Pooja Desai
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