Meta总裁称中期选举后在美国新建数据中心将更难：各大云厂商都在考虑建到国外
纳帕——Meta 总裁兼副董事长 Dina Powell McCormick 11月4日在《华尔街日报》WSJ Tech 大会上表示，中期选举结果出来之后，在美国新建数据中心将变得更难。她说，民主党的广泛胜利由「许多不同因素」促成，而对数据中心的反对在许多竞选广告和出口民调中都居于前列。
「今后会有多得多的审查。」Powell McCormick 说，「我的意思是，今天在美国从零开始新建一个数据中心，将非常具有挑战性。」她同时表示，扩建已有的数据中心会容易一些，因为运营方已有多年记录、周边社区已经感受到收益。
她还透露，各家大型云厂商都在考虑把建设放到美国以外：「我可以告诉你们，每一家超大规模厂商现在都在想：『我们是否需要在美国以外建？』因为这些都是巨额投资，对这些投资做对冲是明智之举。」她说自己把八成时间花在为 Meta 争取算力上，Meta 正在竞相建设足够支撑其36亿用户使用个人智能体的算力。
Meta 在建的大型项目包括路易斯安那州的 Hyperion、俄亥俄州的 Prometheus，以及在德克萨斯州与 BlackRock 合作的一个项目。俄亥俄州与德克萨斯州的新当选州长都曾呼吁有条件冻结新建数据中心。Powell McCormick 同时提到，一位把数据中心写进竞选纲领的当选州长选后对 Meta 表示：「就职典礼一过我们就见面，因为我们不想失去这笔对我们城镇的投资，不想让这些就业机会流到别处。」
这次表态与选民在本次中期选举中的实际选择相互印证：十个州的41项数据中心地方公投中，限制类议题全数通过、开发支持类全数被否，数据中心选址已成为美国地方政治的焦点议题之一。
关联：十州41项数据中心地方公投：限制类议题全数通过、开发支持类全数被否
（来源：华尔街日报）
Meta President Says Building New US Data Centers Will Be Harder After the Midterms, and Every Hyperscaler Is Looking Overseas
Napa — Dina Powell McCormick, Meta's president and vice chair, said at the Wall Street Journal's WSJ Tech conference on November 4 that getting data centers built in the United States is "going to be harder" after the midterm elections. She said "many different factors" played into the Democrats' widespread victories, with opposition to data centers front and center in many campaign ads and exit polls.
"There is going to be a lot more review," Powell McCormick said. "What I mean by that is, to start new data center build-outs today in the United States will be very challenging." Expanding existing data center projects will be easier, she added, because operators have a track record and surrounding communities have felt the benefits.
She also said every major cloud provider is now weighing construction outside the United States: "I can also tell you that every hyperscaler is now thinking about 'Do we need to build outside the United States?' Because they're enormous investments; hedging those investments is a wise thing to do." Powell McCormick, who said she spends 80 percent of her time securing computing power, noted Meta is racing to build enough capacity to run personal agents for its 3.6 billion users.
Meta's giant projects under way include Hyperion in Louisiana, Prometheus in Ohio and a third site in Texas being developed with BlackRock. The governors-elect of Ohio and Texas have both called for conditional freezes on new data center construction. Powell McCormick added that one governor-elect who had made data centers part of their platform told Meta after the election: "As soon as we get past the inauguration, let's meet, because we don't want to lose this investment in our town. We don't want these jobs to go elsewhere."
Her remarks line up with what voters did on November 3: in 41 local ballot measures on data centers across ten states, every restrictive measure passed and every development-friendly one failed, cementing data center siting as a live issue in American local politics.
(Source: The Wall Street Journal)
来源：华尔街日报
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