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内容总结：

多家科技巨头签署协议，承诺数据中心建设不推高居民电费

近日，美国白宫宣布，亚马逊、谷歌、Meta、微软、OpenAI、甲骨文及xAI等多家科技与人工智能领域的主要企业已共同签署一项名为“费率payer保护承诺”的自律协议，旨在防止因耗电量巨大的数据中心建设导致居民电价上涨。

根据协议核心条款，这些公司承诺将为其新增的能源需求“建设、引入或购买相应的新一代电力资源”，并承担全部成本。此外，企业还将支付必要的电网基础设施升级费用，并采用独立计费结构，即无论实际用电与否，均需为预留的电力容量付费。

多家签约企业随即发布新闻稿，强调自身参与并宣传其在减少数据中心负面影响方面的其他措施。然而，该承诺并未设定具有约束力的执行机制或违约处罚条款，也未涉及数据中心及AI发展可能对社区、其他公共资源或关键计算组件供应产生的其他影响。

中文翻译：

大型科技公司承诺：不会因AI数据中心导致电费飙升
但其他方面仍可自由竞争。

今日，白宫宣布多家科技与人工智能领域的巨头企业已达成协议，将采取措施防止数据中心推高电力成本。根据这项"电力用户保护承诺"，企业同意通过具体行动保护居民免受电费上涨的影响——尽管越来越多的高耗能数据中心正在建设中。亚马逊、谷歌、Meta、微软、OpenAI、甲骨文和xAI均已签署该承诺。其中亚马逊、谷歌和Meta更借机发布新闻稿，一边为自身参与行为自诩，一边宣扬其缓解数据中心负面影响的各类政策。

该联邦承诺的核心条款要求科技企业"通过自建、引入或采购新一代电力资源，满足其新增能源需求，并承担全部成本"。条款还声称企业将支付必要的电网基础设施升级费用，并采用独立电价机制运营——即无论企业是否实际用电，都需支付相应费用。

该承诺似乎不具备任何形式的约束力，既未讨论执行机制，也未规定违反条款的处罚措施。同时，它也未涉及数据中心和人工智能发展可能带来的其他影响，包括对当地社区、其他公共资源、乃至内存等关键计算元件供应的影响。

英文来源：

Big tech companies agree to not ruin your electric bill with AI data centers
But everything else is still fair game.
Today the White House announced that several major players in tech and AI have agreed to steps that will keep electricity costs from rising due to data centers. Under this Ratepayer Protection Pledge, companies are agreeing to practices that are intended to protect residents from seeing higher electricity costs as more and more businesses create power-hungry data centers. Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle and xAI have all apparently signed on. A few of the participants — Amazon, Google and Meta — had conveniently timed press releases patting themselves on the back for their participation and touting whatever other policies they have for mitigating the negative impacts of data center construction.
The main provisions of the federal pledge have tech companies agreeing to "build, bring, or buy the new generation resources and electricity needed to satisfy their new energy demands, paying the full cost of those resources." It also claims they will pay for any needed power infrastructure upgrades and operate under separate rate structures for power that will see payments made whether or not the business uses that electricity.
The pledge doesn't appear to be any form of binding agreement and there's no discussion of enforcement or a penalty for companies that don't honor the stipulated provisions. It also doesn't address any of the other impacts data centers and AI development might be having, either on local communities, on other utilities and resources, or on access to critical computing elements like RAM.