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China is way behind the US in the AI arms race, but has no qualms about playing dirty to try and gain an upper hand.<\/p>\n

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According to a new report, Chinese Communist Party-linked backers are helping push anti-AI sentiment which threatens to halt more than $20 billion in energy and infrastructure investment needed to power the AI data boom.<\/p>\n

Even more alarmingly, Americans are helping them do it.<\/p>\n

While Silicon Valley is focused on hiring the best engineers and talent, an equally important battle is already starting to be lost at suburban zoning hearings, county commission meetings and town-hall protests against building new data centers. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people think that this is a choice between AI or no AI\u2026 it\u2019s actually a choice between American AI or Chinese AI,\u201d Sam Lyman, who authored the study by the Bitcoin Policy Institute, said. \u201cWho controls AI will control the information layer of the global economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

In recent months, the issue has gotten alarming enough that members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Brett Guthrie, John Joyce and Bob Latta are asking the White House and FBI to examine whether foreign adversaries are fueling anti-data-center activism.<\/p>\n

The Bitcoin Policy Institute report warns America\u2019s adversaries are doing everything in their power to limit us.<\/p>\n

It claims the China-linked network of Marxist activist Neville Singham and the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) have inserted themselves into local fights across 14 states. Their efforts have helped stall or block at least $23.6 billion in proposed data center investment through funding rallies, petitions, door-knocking campaigns and packing public hearings.<\/p>\n

Their efforts have resulted in 10 local moratoria, one permanent ban in Monterey Park, California, and four rejected or scrapped projects \u2014 including a $1 billion proposal by Google in Indiana and a $12 billion Blackstone-backed data center in Wisconsin, the report claims.<\/p>\n

The report says the organizing push remains active in Cleveland, New Orleans, Milwaukee and Prichard, Alabama.<\/p>\n

To be sure, there are legitimate concerns about data centers \u2014 they are without a doubt ugly and utilitarian. And it\u2019s fair to express opposition to and push against one next to your home.<\/p>\n

But that outrage has gotten a little extreme and while Lyman acknowledges the real frustration, he notes how it is being fueled by fake news and bad information.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA lot of the talking points that get people riled up are patently false, especially about water usage,\u201d he said, adding that some claims about data-center water consumption have been overstated \u201cby about 1,000 times\u201d<\/p>\n

He also claims Singham, who is an American, born in Connecticut, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation \u2014 whose leadership overlaps with executives from Singham-funded nonprofits including The People\u2019s Forum, BreakThrough News and the ANSWER Coalition \u2014 are relying on a well-worn playbook to exploit people\u2019s fears and frustration.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has this same play for pretty much every wedge issue in America,\u201d Lyman told me, referring to any divisive issue which can be used to drive a wedge between groups of people to divide them.<\/p>\n

\u201cIdentify the wedge issue to latch on to it, and then he\u2019ll stoke even greater division and anger using that wedge issue as fuel.\u201d<\/p>\n

In recent years groups, including those linked to Singham, have tried to fuel an anti-American tech narrative \u2014 attacking Big Tech, cheering China\u2019s ability to evade US export controls and, more recently, turning AI data centers into the next villain in their war against American corporate power.<\/p>\n

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By mid-2025, PSL\u2019s publication was tying data centers to higher electric bills and environmental damage. In 2026, it has been calling the nationwide fight over AI data centers \u201ca struggle for who controls the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

While we know Singham has poured nearly $300 million into his socialist projects in the US. When it comes to funding for PSL, it\u2019s difficult to trace where the money originates.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most disturbing revelation to me was the black box that is PSL\u2019s funding,\u201d Lyman said. If someone asks whether China, Cuba, Venezuela or any other foreign adversary funds the PSL, he added, \u201cthe public record can\u2019t give us a clear answer.\u201d<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter how much we innovate if the energy and the data centers necessary to scale are standing in the way.<\/p>\n

It is an important reminder we can\u2019t be naive \u2014 foreign adversaries are willing to do whatever it takes to prevent America from winning. We must do it anyway.<\/p>\n

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