Report: Chinese propaganda, Singham network, foreign dark money linked to campaigns against data centers

On Sunday, CodePink, a far-left, pro-China, pro-communism nonprofit activistic group, published a video connected Instagram attacking a projected information halfway task successful Utah backed by capitalist Kevin O’Leary.

According to a caller report, obtained by Fox News Digital, that wasn't a coincidence.

The report, "Foreign Influence successful the Campaign against American AI," by the Bitcoin Policy Institute, alleges that determination are "three vectors of overseas power converging connected the propulsion to artifact U.S. AI information halfway construction."

They see a nonprofit web funded by tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham, a U.S. expatriate surviving successful Shanghai promoting Chinese propaganda; Chinese Communist Party authorities media; and acheronian wealth backing tied to overseas billionaires including Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss and British billionaire Alan Parker.

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Tycoon Neville Roy Singham with woman Jodie Evans. In 2025, helium argues successful Shanghai that helium enactment the "new satellite order" of the Chinese Communist Party, which includes power implicit Cuba. (Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images and Global South Academic Forum)

The study alleges nonprofits funded by Singham — including CodePink — person spent years fueling absorption to U.S. AI infrastructure and information halfway enlargement successful coordination with Chinese propaganda narratives and foreign-funded activistic networks. As reported, successful February 2017, Singham joined Jodie Evans, the co-founder of CodePink successful a lavish wedding successful Jamaica, and, according to a Fox News Digital investigation, Singham pumped $285 cardinal into six nonprofits implicit the adjacent respective years, utilizing a bid of ammunition companies and a donor-advised money established astatine a philanthropy limb of Goldman Sachs. A spokesperson for Goldman Sachs told Fox News Digital that the institution "terminated" Singham's donor-advised money successful aboriginal 2024.

A caller study by the Bitcoin Policy Institute alleges that nonprofits aligned with Chinese interests are fueling the run against U.S. information centers. (Bitcoin Policy Center)

Still, the web of organizations that Singham has funded person continued to enactment arsenic proxies for the propaganda of the Chinese Communist Party.

On March 25, amid campaigns by Singham organizations against U.S. exertion firms, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced the "AI Data Center Moratorium Act." Weeks later, connected April 29, Sanders hosted a Capitol Hill lawsuit titled "The Existential Threat of AI."

According to the report, 2 of the 4 panelists astatine that lawsuit were affiliated with the Chinese government: Zeng Yi, founding dean of the Beijing Institute of AI Safety and Governance, and Xue Lan, a counsellor of China’s State Council and seat of China’s National AI Governance Committee.

Singham, Evans, Wyss, Parker Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez didn't respond to requests for comment. The organizations named successful the study didn't respond to requests for comment.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., clasp a quality league to denote the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act astatine the U.S. Capitol connected March 25, 2026. ((Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

The study states that, utilizing a U.S. Senate platform, Xue argued that the U.S.-China AI contention was "an inaccurate narrative" and promoted "safe zones" of practice connected AI governance, messaging the study says paralleled years of Chinese authorities media narratives surrounding AI argumentation and American technological development.

Sam Lyman, caput of probe astatine the Bitcoin Policy Institute and a erstwhile elder speechwriter for Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, said, "Ensuring that AI is harmless and empowers American workers indispensable beryllium a apical precedence for US policymakers. But the treatment astir AI information should not beryllium influenced by geopolitical rivals, particularly China, whose leaders person publically stated their intentions to accelerate AI improvement to ‘gain the inaugural successful planetary subject and exertion competition.’"

"Depending connected advances successful this field, determination whitethorn travel a clip erstwhile the United States and China indispensable prosecute successful bilateral negotiations to guarantee the harmless improvement of AI," Lyman said. "But until then, an honorable speech astir AI information requires filtering immoderate overseas influence. This study provides the transparency citizens and lawmakers request to spot who is backing and influencing the campaigns shaping the AI argumentation debate."

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Racks of servers with colorful wires are seen successful a information halfway arsenic AI enlargement strains the powerfulness grid, prompting a connection for tech firms to money their ain vigor needs. (Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP via Getty Images)

The convergence of involvement groups opposing information centers isn't a coincidence, the study alleges.

"These events did not instrumentality spot successful isolation," says the report. "They were the culmination of a multi-year power run against American AI conducted crossed 3 vectors of overseas influence."

The study specifically alleges that Beijing’s state-run media outlets — including CGTN, China Daily and Global Times — person pushed anti-data-center narratives wrong the United States portion China simultaneously subsidizes home AI infrastructure development.

"The asymmetry is what gives the cognition away," the study argues. "While Beijing’s authorities media warns American audiences that information centers are environmentally and economically dangerous, the Chinese authorities subsidizes up to fractional of the vigor costs of its ain AI information halfway operators."

The study further alleges that the Singham web "has spent astir 5 years producing parallel home contented opposing U.S. AI infrastructure, AI labs, and AI export controls."

It points to aggregate examples involving organizations linked to the network.

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A car drives past the Digital Realty Data Center gathering successful Ashburn, Virginia, connected March 17, 2025. (Leah Millis/Reuters)

In January 2026, CodePink published an nonfiction titled "The War Intervention: AI, Data Centers, and the Environment," straight targeting U.S. AI information centers, including Meta’s Hyperion task successful Louisiana and Meta Cheyenne successful Wyoming, portion framing the combat arsenic absorption to "the caller Cold War connected China."

The study besides cites Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, a Singham-funded deliberation tank, for repeatedly opposing U.S. semiconductor export controls and criticizing efforts to bounds China’s AI development.

On March 27, Tricontinental published an article, "Breaking the Stranglehold: How China Is Shattering US Technological Hegemony," arguing against U.S. AI spot restrictions and portraying American export controls arsenic an effort to suppress China’s rise.

That aforesaid day, Peoples Dispatch — which is besides portion of the Singham ecosystem — published "Kill Chain: Silicon Valley, AI, and the warfare connected Iran," attacking AI companies including Anthropic and Palantir Technologies. The study describes the same-day work signifier crossed affiliated outlets arsenic grounds of coordinated messaging operations.

By May 1, CodePink published an article, "The Dark Side of the Data Center Boom," adding to the cacophony of coordinated protests against U.S. information centers.

The House Ways and Means Committee, House Oversight Committee and the House Select Committee connected the Chinese Communist Party are investigating whether immoderate of the nonprofits should registry nether the Foreign Agents Registration Act, oregon FARA. The House Ways and Means Committee has issued letters to Singham-funded organizations, seeking interior documents related to their funding, operations and connections to Singham and the Chinese Communist Party.

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Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and philanthropist Hansjorg Wyss be Oceana's 2015 New York City payment astatine the Four Seasons Restaurant successful New York City connected April 1, 2015. (Craig Barritt/Getty Images)

On overseas funding, the study alleges that charitable organizations tied to Wyss and Parker person routed billions of dollars into U.S.-based advocacy infrastructure present aligned against AI infrastructure projects and information centers.

It specifically highlights a Dec. 8, 2025, missive organized by Food & Water Watch, a nonprofit, calling for a nationalist moratorium connected caller AI information centers. According to the report, astir 230 organizations signed the letter, including groups receiving backing from networks linked to Wyss and Parker.

The study notes that the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez moratorium authorities was introduced 107 days aft the conjugation missive was circulated.

"That benignant of ratio typically distinguishes coordinated advocacy infrastructure from spontaneous grassroots opposition," the AI Policy Institute states.

The study argues that "ensuring that AI is harmless and empowers American workers indispensable beryllium a apical precedence for U.S. policymakers," but says the statement implicit AI information and information centers "should not beryllium influenced by a geopolitical rival."

In its conclusion, the study frames the statement successful stark geopolitical terms, arguing that "the prime facing policymakers is not betwixt AI oregon nary AI but betwixt American AI oregon Chinese AI."

By aboriginal day connected Monday, the CodePink video opposing the Utah information halfway task had acquired 356 likes, galore of them from the pro-China, pro-communist activistic ecosystem.

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