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BPI report says a China-linked activist group blocked or delayed $23.6 billion in US AI infrastructure projects

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A BPI investigation traces how the Party for Socialism and Liberation helped organize local opposition that contributed to ten data-center moratoria and roughly $23.6 billion in delayed or canceled AI infrastructure across 14 states, with documented wins in nine of them.

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Beff (e/acc)@beffjezos#530inTech

!!!! The Decel Anti-AI movement in the US is basically a set of puppets of the CCP confirmed.

Sam Lyman@SamLyman33

NEW: BPI research reveals that a Marxist-Leninist group with documented ties to China has been a critical mobilizer in efforts that have blocked or delayed $23.6 billion in AI investment in the US.

Its scalps include 10 data center moratoria, 1 permanent data center ban, and 4 rejected or scrapped AI projects.

In Part II of our foreign influence investigation, BPI exposes the Party for Socialism and Liberation (or PSL) as the political arm of Shanghai-based Neville Singham, and lays bare a national campaign launched by the party to stop America’s data center buildout.

Singham is the subject of multiple federal investigations into his reported ties to the CCP. Our research uncovers the anti-data-center organizing of his activist vehicle, the PSL, across 21 campaigns in 14 states, in roles ranging from lead organizer to one member of a broader coalition.

This report adds to the mounting evidence that China and its surrogates are committed to stopping America’s data center buildout so that Beijing can gain the advantage in the AI race.

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Local wins add up fast

Twenty-one separate campaigns produced concrete results including one permanent ban and multiple zoning rejections, showing how repeated grassroots pressure can freeze large-scale builds even when electricity and water concerns are already on the table.

Open Question

Money trails stay murky

PSL’s documented ties to nonprofits funded by Neville Singham raise fresh questions about foreign influence, yet campaign finances remain undisclosed and congressional requests for FARA reviews have not yet produced public answers.

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Sam Lyman@SamLyman33

Read the full report here 👇

https://www.btcpolicy.org/articles/foreign-influence-campaign-against-american-ai-part-ii-singham-ground-game

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Sam Lyman@SamLyman33

NEW: BPI research reveals that a Marxist-Leninist group with documented ties to China has been a critical mobilizer in efforts that have blocked or delayed $23.6 billion in AI investment in the US.

Its scalps include 10 data center moratoria, 1 permanent data center ban, and 4 rejected or scrapped AI projects.

This report adds to the mounting evidence that China and its surrogates are committed to stopping America’s data center buildout so that Beijing can gain the advantage in the AI race.

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Garry Tan@garrytan

Most underreported story in all of tech

Garry's List@garryslist

Two reports from @SamLyman33 and @bitcoinpolicy document a coordinated foreign influence campaign against American AI — running through CCP state media, a Shanghai-based Marxist's nonprofit network, and foreign billionaire dark money that has funneled $2B+ into US advocacy infrastructure.

AI doomerism isn't as organic as it looks.

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nic carter@nic_carter

@SamLyman33 all anti-AI people organizers are either:

- directly funded by america's adversaries - useful idiots for our adversaries

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James Clark 📈📉¯\_(ツ)_/¯@mr_james_c

@SamLyman33 It's the obvious move really

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Sam Lyman@SamLyman33

@EugeniaBKenny Well said, Eugenia.

Two things can be true at once: there is organic opposition to data centers but there is also a foreign-aligned network committed to amplifying anger and division over the issue.

The question people should be asking is "Why?"

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@amuse@amuse

@SamLyman33 This is true...

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Sam Lyman@SamLyman33

@mr_james_c What's crazy is the willful disbelief in some corners of Capitol Hill.

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Eugenia Kenny@EugeniaBKenny

@SamLyman33 People’s concerns about data centers are real and valid. So is knowing the entire truth.

You can’t decide where you stand if you don’t have complete information. Thank you, Sam, for shedding light into this.

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Michael Ron Bowling@mrbcyber

@SamLyman33 China 🇨🇳 is not just looking to disrupt data centers. They are stealing the technology that makes these centers economically viable.

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Beff (e/acc)@beffjezos

The CCP is trying to influence policy to stop American AI.

Those supporting Decel policies should be trialed for treason.

Garry's List@garryslist

AI doomerism isn't as organic as it looks.

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• Pinguino • 🖍️🧲🐧@p1nguyno

@SamLyman33

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Sanguine Agnostic 🪙 🇺🇸@SanguineAgnosti

BPI is not some neutral think tank...

It's a black box 501c3 with a pro BigTech and Bitcoin bias.

Jack Dorsey is heavily involved as are others...

I'm going to go out on a limb here and state that it is in their interests to drum up fear of China to help push a narrative that favors continual DC buildouts...

Maybe the report is accurate. Or maybe there are specious links used to propagandize for specific purposes.

Much greater scrutiny is called for...

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Deborah@DeborahProudJew

@SamLyman33 @AsraNomani Below may explain how Durham’s Southern Vision Alliance gets around lobbying issues.

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Stark@Foldedspace

@SamLyman33 Same thing happened with nuclear power. Instead of cheap energy for all the electric cars you could ever want, we instead have rolling blackouts and thousands of windmills hanging slack in the summer heat.

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Soapbox Hero@GeneratorRando

@SamLyman33 Liberal democracies cannot survive against authoritarian regimes. Their very openness and democratic processes will be used against them. It is asymmetric warfare.

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