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它不在市中心，你也看不到。但它正在变得越来越大，越来越耗电，并开始出现在一些普通社区旁边。这就是数据中心(Data Center)。

In the PJM region, capacity prices went from roughly twenty-nine dollars per megawatt-day for the 2024/25 delivery year to over three hundred and twenty-nine dollars for 2026/27. A significant driver of those increases was data center load.

North American data center consumption is at over a trillion liters annually. With good water quality, roughly 80% of water withdrawal is evaporated and considered "consumption."

Microsoft reported a twenty-five percent increase in total greenhouse gas emissions, Amazon reported sixteen percent, and Google attributed a twenty-five percent rise in its supply chain emissions specifically to hardware manufacturing and data center construction.

Developers often seek agricultural land as it is often already cleared, graded and laid out in large contiguous tracts, lowering upfront site development costs and shortening project timelines.

Between 20 and 70 million expensive hard disk drives (HDDs) reach their end of life each year – most of which are shredded and sent to landfills, creating vast amounts of waste.

Over the past 20 years, the data center industry in Loudoun County has grown significantly. Currently, data centers occupy approximately 4 percent of commercial parcels of the land in the county; however, they yield 38% of general fund revenue collected by the county. This revenue stream has been growing year over year, providing the county with more than $100 million of new revenue each year that has helped to fund Loudoun County Public Schools, county government programs and services, and allowing the Board to reduce the real property tax rate for homeowners to the lowest rate of any county in northern Virginia.

Data center and AI-related investments account for 80% of private domestic demand growth in the first half of 2025.

Hyperscale data centers: Leading facilities achieve PUE ratings of 1.09-1.20. Enterprise data centers: Typically operate between 1.5-1.8 PUE, with newer facilities trending toward 1.4.

Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta account for more than half of all new renewable energy deals.

Johnson Controls says its design can eliminate cooling tower water use, saving more than 12 million gallons of water per day.

By 2030, AWS expects to avoid the consumption of more than 530 million gallons of drinking-water through its use of recycled water.