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LIZ PEEK: China is cheering as the Left blocks America’s AI infrastructure

Groups tied to American Marxist Neville Roy Singham have delayed about $24B in AI infrastructure, per BPI research

By Liz Peek Fox News

Published August 25, 2026 5:00am EDT

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The progressive Left is working hard to derail America’s AI dominance by blocking data center construction. So is China.

The AI push is critical to U.S. national security, to win what retired Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis calls the "new AI Cold War with China." But, it is also essential to U.S. economic growth. The U.S. needs to buttress its shrinking workforce, and AI agents are standing by to take over from retiring Boomers, self-deporting immigrants, and a declining number of college graduates.

AI is coming of age at the perfect time and yet anti-growth activists, amplified by foreign adversaries and media alarmism, want to shut it all down.

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China is helping them do that. While concerns about the build-out of energy-hungry data centers across the country are spurring authentic local opposition, there is also little doubt that America’s enemies are encouraging the resistance.

In 2023, the New York Times published a report detailing their investigation into Neville Roy Singham, an American Marxist based in Shanghai who, according to the Times, "works closely with the Chinese government media machine and is financing its propaganda worldwide."

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