America's AI race against China, which has become a major point of debate as midterms approach, is a race filled with "coordinated" propaganda, warned Sen.Ted Cruz, R-Texas.In recent months, data centers and AI policy have been debated in Congress and at the kitchen tables of American families.
But Cruz, who chairs the Senate Commerce Committee, told Fox News Digital that much of the new opposition to data centers is being manipulated by a well-funded and coordinated campaign."It's the same reason we saw Middle Eastern countries paying for anti-fracking movements," Cruz said."Because if they can convince America, 'Don't develop your oil and gas, just buy it from us,' well, that's great for them and terrible for us.
The same is true on data centers.If they can convince Americans, 'You don't want data centers here, you want to just rely on the Chinese for AI,' that's great for China, and it's terrible for America."US Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on Thursday May 8, 2025.
The witnesses include CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman, Chair and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.(AMD) Lisa Su, Co-founder and chief executive officer of CoreWeave Inc Michael Intrator, and President of Microsoft Corp.
Brad Smith.(Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post)CHINA EXPERT WARNS BEIJING WANTS AMERICANS — NOT THE CCP — TO SPREAD ITS MESSAGEDirect funding from the Chinese government into the U.S.
on data center policies has not been revealed.However, in June, OpenAI announced it had banned ChatGPT accounts believed to have originated in China, and said that the accounts were generating social media comments and images alleging that data centers are raising electricity costs for Americans.OpenAI said in a statement that it shut down "two clusters of ChatGPT accounts likely originating from China that [OpenAI] banned after they used our models in support of apparent covert influence oper...