When 2,000 people sign a petition against a data center, the AI industry has a new answer. It is not about your water. It is not about your electricity bill. It is about Beijing.
On June 4, 2026, three Republican congressmen sent a letter to the FBI saying the data center resistance movement is being funded by China. They want an FBI investigation. They called the protests a disinformation campaign.
Who told them that? Two organizations. A pro-Bitcoin think tank whose top researcher used to write speeches for Trump’s Treasury Secretary. And a group founded by a former Koch network operative to fight environmental organizations opposing fossil fuels.
Those are the sources. That is the evidence. Three members of Congress took it to the FBI.
Here is what the reports actually show. Chinese state media has covered data center opposition. A businessman with alleged CCP ties has funded some nonprofits that oppose AI infrastructure. Those are real facts.
They do not prove that regular Americans who sign petitions and show up to town hall meetings are Chinese spies. The Wyss Foundation, named in the report, said its grants had nothing to do with data centers. Trump himself said he was not worried about it.
More than 300 state bills targeting data centers were filed in the first six weeks of 2026 alone. More than $64 billion in projects have been blocked by community opposition. None of that required Beijing. It required people worried about their water, their electricity bills, and their farmland.
The China card is not an answer to those concerns. It is a way of avoiding them.
The FBI has been asked to investigate American citizens for opposing a noisy, water-draining industrial facility in their backyard.
Read that again.
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