微软对数据中心社区投资承诺含糊，遭教会团体质疑
Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs
Ars Technica报道指出，微软在推广数据中心时承诺做“好邻居”，支持当地公共服务，但在具体投资金额上态度模糊。尽管微软2024年员工慈善捐款达2.29亿美元，但批评者认为其本地投入远低于其在38个州获得的数亿美元级税收减免优惠。面对教会团体要求分享1%数据中心成本的诉求，微软代表在社区会议上难以给出明确回应。
Microsoft has spent all year telling communities that when it brings a new data center into their area, it is committed to being a “good neighbor." It will pay local property taxes that support local hospitals, schools, parks, and libraries, and it will invest in “vital services the community cares about,” the company promised. And it has sent liaisons into those communities to learn what those needs are.
But ask those liaisons how much the company is willing to invest, and the answers can be hard to come by.
At community meetings, Microsoft representatives have seemed unprepared to answer questions that go beyond the company's “good neighbor” campaign materials, Ars has learned. The company has acknowledged in public-facing documents that simply matching its employees’ charitable donations—which totaled $229 million across 29,000 nonprofits in 2024—isn't enough. But it has been vague about what more substantial local investments might look like. And to critics, Microsoft’s local investments seem especially small compared with the estimated hundreds of millions in state-level tax breaks that data center developers get in 38 states—exemptions that often last more than a decade.
来源：Ars Technica：AI（RSS） · arstechnica.com