亚马逊在得州建7.65吉瓦燃气电厂，或成美国最大污染源
亚马逊数据中心成美国最大污染源
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Amazon is quietly trying to build the biggest gas power plant in the country.
亚马逊正悄悄尝试建造美国最大的燃气发电厂。
The Distilled newsletter reported Friday that the megacorporation has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. The plant will be completely separate from Texas’s power grid, at least in the beginning, the permits show.
《蒸馏》通讯周五报道，这家巨头已在德克萨斯州佩科斯县购买土地并获得许可，用于建设一个由7.65吉瓦燃气发电厂供电的人工智能数据中心。许可文件显示，该发电厂将完全独立于德克萨斯州的电网，至少在初期是这样。
The site, known as GW Ranch, got a state permit allowing the proposed power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide, which would make it the biggest pollution site in the U.S., emitting more than the country’s biggest coal power plant, according to Distilled. That’s in sharp contrast to Amazon’s commitment to reach net-zero emissions by 2040 as part of The Climate Pledge.
据《蒸馏》报道，该地点名为GW牧场，已获得州许可，允许拟建发电厂排放3300万吨二氧化碳，这将使其成为美国最大的污染源，排放量超过美国最大的燃煤电厂。这与亚马逊作为《气候承诺》一部分，到2040年实现净零排放的承诺形成鲜明对比。
Amazon filed three construction permits with the state of Texas this week to build three data center buildings immediately upon approval. Land clearing has already begun, according to satellite imagery. Amazon would join Microsoft, Google, and Meta in having its own off-grid gas power.
亚马逊本周向德克萨斯州提交了三份建筑许可申请，计划在批准后立即建造三栋数据中心大楼。根据卫星图像，土地清理工作已经开始。亚马逊将加入微软、谷歌和Meta的行列，拥有自己的离网燃气发电。
Amazon says that it has 10 gigawatts of carbon-free energy across 40 projects to power its existing data center operations in Texas, and that the GW Ranch will use brackish groundwater that isn’t potable and thus can’t be used for irrigation or drinking.
亚马逊表示，其在40个项目中拥有10吉瓦的无碳能源，为其在德克萨斯州的现有数据中心运营提供电力，并且GW牧场将使用不可饮用的微咸地下水，因此不能用于灌溉或饮用。
But that’s not likely to quell public opposition. Data centers are hugely unpopular across the country among Republicans and Democrats, both in rural and suburban areas. The centers don’t create many jobs or boost local economies. If connected to local power grids, they can drive utility rates up and cause black- and brownouts. Amid climate change and droughts, the claim that data centers will take advantage of unusable water will likely invite skepticism.
但这不太可能平息公众的反对。数据中心在全国范围内，无论是共和党人还是民主党人，无论是在农村还是郊区，都非常不受欢迎。这些中心不会创造很多就业机会，也不会促进当地经济。如果连接到当地电网，它们可能会推高公用事业费率，并导致停电或限电。在气候变化和干旱的情况下，数据中心将利用不可用水的说法可能会招致怀疑。
The fact that Amazon is building its own power plant for the project will be a small comfort for residents worried about utility rates, but locals still will have concerns about pollution from a gas plant bigger than any other in the U.S. Rural Texas is deeply Republican, and despite President Donald Trump’s delusions about data centers’ popularity, opposition to them on the right is growing. Now that this project is public, a big backlash could soon follow.
亚马逊为该项目建设自己的发电厂，这对担心公用事业费率的居民来说是一个小小的安慰，但当地人仍然会对一个比美国任何其他发电厂都大的燃气发电厂的污染感到担忧。德克萨斯州农村地区是坚定的共和党人，尽管总统唐纳德·特朗普对数据中心受欢迎程度的错觉，但右翼对它们的反对正在增长。现在这个项目公开了，大规模的反弹可能很快就会到来。
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Representative Max Miller blamed a daycare after his daughter was rushed to the hospital last year with bruises.
去年，众议员马克斯·米勒的女儿因瘀伤被紧急送往医院，他将责任归咎于一家日托中心。
Miller sued a Westlake, Ohio, daycare provider in February 2025, after the daughter he shares with his ex-wife Emily Moreno (the daughter of Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno) was taken to an emergency room with injuries “on her thighs, face, groin, and vaginal area of her body and she was caused to incur psychological trauma.” Her mother took the girl, then under two years old, to a hospital on January 27 after a daycare staff member alerted police as well as the Department of Children and Family Services.
2025年2月，米勒起诉了俄亥俄州韦斯特莱克的一家日托机构，此前他与前妻艾米丽·莫雷诺（俄亥俄州参议员伯尼·莫雷诺的女儿）所生的女儿因“大腿、面部、腹股沟和阴道区域受伤，并遭受心理创伤”被送往急诊室。1月27日，日托工作人员报警并通知儿童与家庭服务部后，孩子的母亲将当时不满两岁的女孩送往医院。
The lawsuit doesn’t clearly state where her injuries came from, and Miller has a long list of abuse allegations against him regarding his ex-wife and daughter, even allegedly fracturing his daughter’s collarbone. His lawsuit, filed four months before his divorce was finalized, accuses the school and four named employees of “failing to properly train and supervise their staff in the proper treatment of children in their care. Defendants abused and neglected a child dependent upon them for protection.”
诉讼中没有明确说明她的伤势来源，米勒对前妻和女儿有一长串虐待指控，甚至涉嫌导致女儿锁骨骨折。他的诉讼在离婚最终确定前四个月提起，指控该学校和四名具名员工“未能妥善培训和监督其员工，以正确对待由其照顾的儿童。被告虐待并忽视了一个依赖他们保护的儿童。”
Miller is the only person named in the complaint, and Moreno isn’t mentioned. Miller claims in the lawsuit that an investigation from county authorities backs up his claims, along with video and audio evidence documenting alleged abuse and neglect. The school denied the allegations, stating that the toddler was not “injured, brutalized, or harmed in any manner while under the defendants’ alleged care and supervision.”
米勒是诉状中唯一被点名的人，莫雷诺未被提及。米勒在诉讼中声称，县当局的调查支持他的说法，还有记录涉嫌虐待和忽视的音视频证据。学校否认了这些指控，称该幼儿“在被告所谓的照顾和监督下，并未以任何方式受伤、受虐待或受到伤害。”
The case was dismissed four months ago, and if there was a settlement, it hasn’t been disclosed. In light of newly revealed allegations that Miller has a habit of holding his daughter’s beloved blue bunny hostage and his admission that he shared an inappropriate photo of her online, this lawsuit raises even more questions.
该案在四个月前被驳回，如果有和解协议，尚未披露。鉴于新揭露的指控，即米勒有扣留女儿心爱的蓝色兔子玩具的习惯，以及他承认在网上分享了她的一张不当照片，这起诉讼引发了更多疑问。
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Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s latest dismal jobs report.
根据全国妇女法律中心对劳工统计局最新惨淡就业报告的分析，7月份劳动力减少的全部100%来自女性。
Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July: Women lost 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000. Many of the jobs lost were in local government and leisure and hospitality—real jobs that real women, who are already dealing with slowed wages and rising inflation, work.
总体而言，7月份经济减少了23,000个工作岗位：女性减少了32,000个工作岗位，而男性增加了9,000个。许多失去的工作岗位来自地方政府和休闲酒店业——这些是真实的工作，由真实的女性从事，她们已经在应对工资增长放缓和通胀上升的问题。
Meanwhile, a whopping 165,000 women exited the work force last month, meaning they were neither working nor looking for a new job. The number of men in the labor force remained steady.
与此同时，上个月有高达16.5万名女性退出劳动力市场，这意味着她们既没有工作也没有在寻找新工作。男性劳动力数量保持稳定。
Jasmine Tucker, vice president of research at NWLC, warned that this latest jobs report was “not a sign of a healthy economy.”
全国妇女法律中心研究副总裁贾斯敏·塔克警告说，这份最新的就业报告“不是经济健康的迹象”。
“Women are leaving the labor force in alarming numbers, and many who remain employed are underemployed. This administration cannot celebrate an economy that is failing so many women,” Tucker said.
塔克说：“女性正以惊人的数量退出劳动力市场，许多仍在就业的女性也处于就业不足状态。本届政府不能为一个让如此多女性失望的经济庆祝。”
In fact, more than double the number of women have left the labor force than men since the start of the year. A total of 845,000 women have left the workforce since January, while 406,000 men have left.
事实上，自今年年初以来，退出劳动力市场的女性人数是男性的两倍多。自1月份以来，共有84.5万名女性退出劳动力市场，而男性为40.6万名。
It’s hard not to see these startling statistics as part of the Trump administration’s broader campaign to undermine women’s rights and autonomy.
很难不将这些令人震惊的统计数据视为特朗普政府破坏妇女权利和自主权的更广泛运动的一部分。
Whether it’s making it harder for women to vote, sidelining women professionally, or endangering emergency pregnancy care—targeting women’s livelihoods just feels like part of the system that’s working as it was designed.
无论是让女性更难投票、在职业上边缘化女性，还是危及紧急妊娠护理——针对女性的生计感觉就像是这个系统按设计运作的一部分。
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Marco Rubio is slowly choking Cuba to death.
马尔科·卢比奥正在慢慢扼杀古巴。
The Secretary of State told Axios his plan to take over the island—long plagued by U.S. intelligence agency meddling and extensive federal sanctions—for good.
这位国务卿告诉Axios，他计划永久接管这个长期受美国情报机构干预和广泛联邦制裁困扰的岛屿。
“What we’re trying to teach them is there are no escape valves … Every time they create a new mechanism in which they try to get out of the noose, we just close it off,” Rubio said. “They certainly can’t wait us out. Certainly this isn’t going to go away for the next [two and a half] years.”
卢比奥说：“我们试图教他们的是，没有逃生阀……每次他们创造新机制试图摆脱绞索，我们就把它关闭。他们当然不能耗过我们。当然，在接下来的（两年半）里，这不会消失。”
The Trump administration has kept a constant thumb on Cuba, starting with a blackout-inducing oil blockade in January that has directly contributed to widespread food insecurity, economic collapse, and death, as infant mortality doubled on the island. The U.S. has levied 24 different attacks against Cuba, from accusing its doctor export program of human trafficking, claiming that it’s aiding international terrorism, and running an “irregular and covert” campaign against western ideologies. And military action is still a possibility.
特朗普政府一直对古巴施加持续压力，从1月份导致停电的石油封锁开始，这直接导致了广泛的粮食不安全、经济崩溃和死亡，岛上婴儿死亡率翻了一番。美国对古巴发起了24次不同的攻击，从指责其医生出口计划是人口贩运，声称其协助国际恐怖主义，到对西方意识形态进行“非常规和隐蔽”的运动。军事行动仍有可能。
“The Cuban Communist regime is a state sponsor of terrorism that spies on America, arms violent left-wing radicals, spreads poisonous Marxist ideology, and serves as a staging ground for Russia, China & Iran just 90 miles from our shores,” Rubio announced on Thursday. “Today I sanctioned five Cuban entities and eight individuals associated with procuring arms for the regime. As President Trump has said: The United States will not tolerate a rogue state harboring hostile military, intelligence & terror operations on our doorstep. Anyone supporting, sponsoring, or providing services to these sanctioned actors is at risk of being sanctioned themselves.”
“古巴共产主义政权是一个支持恐怖主义的国家，它监视美国，武装激进的左翼分子，传播有毒的马克思主义意识形态，并且作为俄罗斯、中国和伊朗的集结地，距离我们的海岸仅90英里，”鲁比奥周四宣布。“今天我制裁了五个古巴实体和八名与该政权采购武器有关的个人。正如特朗普总统所说：美国不会容忍一个流氓国家在我们的家门口进行敌对的军事、情报和恐怖行动。任何支持、赞助或向这些受制裁对象提供服务的人都面临被制裁的风险。”
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