Chinas playing dirty in the AI arms race and Neville Singham appears to be helping themchange US minds

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.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.Even more alarmingly, Americans are helping them do it.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. “A lot of people think that this is a choice between AI or no AI… it’s actually a choice between American AI or Chinese AI,” Sam Lyman, who authored the study by the Bitcoin Policy Institute, said.

“Who controls AI will control the information layer of the global economy.”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.The Bitcoin Policy Institute report warns America’s adversaries are doing everything in their power to limit us.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.Their efforts have resulted in 10 local moratoria, one permanent ban in Monterey Park, California, and four rejected or scrapped projects — including a $1 billion proposal by Google in Indiana and a $12 billion Blackstone-backed data center in Wisconsin, the report claims.The report says the organizing push remains active in Cl...