Exclusive | Pols send chilling warning to White House about China fueling anti-AI data center protests in US
WASHINGTON — There is evidence that “strongly suggests” China and other foreign adversaries are fueling campaigns opposing data centers to undermine the US in the artificial intelligence race, the House Energy and Commerce Committee warned Thursday.Lawmakers on the panel urged in a new letter to the Trump administration to step up oversight of possible ties between China and anti-AI forces in the US, fretting that the international subterfuge could undermine American dominance.“Our nation is locked in a race with China to innovate and lead the world in the development of Artificial Intelligence technologies,” House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) told The Post.“The fact that Chinese Communist Party-backed entities and other foreign adversaries may be attempting to influence decisions related to American data center infrastructure puts into perspective how serious of a fight we are in.”Guthrie, Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman John Joyce (R-Pa.), and Subcommittee on Energy Chairman Bob Latta (R-Ohio) pointed to recent studies from the Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) and Power the Future (PTF).The BPI study concluded that “international actors are working through state media organizations, nonprofit networks, and dark money groups to shape US policy and public opinion on artificial intelligence.”One example mentioned in that report was the network of nonprofits and outlets bankrolled by Neville Roy Singham, a Shanghai-based US expatriate.Singham, who is married to Code-Pink founder Jodie Evans, previously faced government scrutiny for “activities inimical to the US.” Republicans in Congress have also long been probing Singham’s influence network in the US.BPI cited an analysis that Singham pumped some $278 million across six American nonprofits between 2017 and 2023.The Committee on Energy and Commerce sent a missive to President Trump’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and�...