Left’s Anti-Data Center Activism Plays Right Into China’s Hands

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Anti-data center activists typically cite concerns about water usage, pollution, or the cost of building the data centers themselves.

Many individuals are sincere in their activism. But public opinion on data centers is likely being shaped by foreign actors, according to a report from the Bitcoin Policy Institute. (RELATED: CHRIS JOHNSON: AI Data Centers Can Win Over Skeptics. But It Must Learn From Fracking) 

BPI’s head of research Sam Lyman explained Wednesday that China uses social media as a “gain of function for their propaganda” on The Hill’s “Rising.”

“Through the networks that we’ve identified in this report, specifically US-based nonprofits, they’re able to amplify a lot of anti-data center misinformation, and push those out into local communities in Utah, Idaho, Georgia, other places where these data centers are getting built.”

BPI documents how Chinese Communist Party state media, nonprofits backed by billionaire businessman Neville Roy Singham, and “foreign-billionaire dark money” have campaigned to influence Americans’ perception of artificial intelligence.

Singham is the subject of ongoing congressional investigations, and an interagency investigation conducted by the Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of........

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