LIZ PEEK: China is cheering as the Left blocks America’s AI infrastructure

The progressive Left is working hard to derail America’s AI dominance by blocking data center construction.

So is China.

The AI push is critical to U.S. national security , to win what retired Lt.

Col.

Robert Maginnis calls the "new AI Cold War with China." But, it is also essential to U.S. economic growth.

The U.S. needs to buttress its shrinking workforce, and AI agents are standing by to take over from retiring Boomers, self-deporting immigrants, and a declining number of college graduates.

AI is coming of age at the perfect time and yet anti-growth activists, amplified by foreign adversaries and media alarmism, want to shut it all down.

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China is helping them do that.

While concerns about the build-out of energy-hungry data centers across the country are spurring authentic local opposition, there is also little doubt that America’s enemies are encouraging the resistance.

In 2023, the New York Times published a report detailing their investigation into Neville Roy Singham, an American Marxist based in Shanghai who, according to the Times, "works closely with the Chinese government media machine and is financing its propaganda worldwide." At the time, Singham had funneled "at least" $275 million into leftist US nonprofits like Code Pink, The People's Forum, BreakThrough News, the Justice and Education Fund, and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

The Times documented that these groups are interconnected, sharing staff and content; the Times writes that Singham also "shares office space — and his groups share staff members — with a company whose mission is educating foreigners about "the miracles that China has created on the world stage." Though he denies it, investigative reports and congressional leaders argue Singham's network advances China's strategic goals.

Beijing’s main objective today is to race ahead of the U.S. in AI.

President Xi cannot count on Chinese tech innovators, so is feverishly trying to hobble America’s data center build-out, the infrastructure essential to continued American dominance.