Agitators united by Chinese money, hate for America target data centers, experts warn
In 2024, climate activists in New York City protested alongside anti-Israel protesters at a rally titled “Climate Justice Means a Free Palestine.” Last year, famed climate change icon Greta Thunberg chanted “Free! Free! Palestine!” to protest the country’s war in Gaza. He shouted and tried to attack Israel by sea with a fleet. when entry is denied.
And last week, activists from CodePink, a far-left feminist activist group that received funding from an American immigrant, Neville Roy SinghamThe Shanghai resident took a break from his rallies supporting the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Communist Party of Cuba to post a video on Instagram attacking a Utah data center project backed by investor Kevin O’Leary.
What connects these causes?
Climate activists, anti-Israel protesters, and other activist movements with very different agendas have become strange bedfellows, united by a shared disdain for America and funding from China; This trend is weakening the United States amid a rapidly accelerating AI race, experts warn.
Critics say the same activist ecosystem is now targeting America’s AI infrastructure and industrial might; Experts warn that this development could undermine the US’s technological competition with China.
The growing rapprochement increasingly includes communist and Islamist activist movements and has recently expanded into campaigns targeting America’s AI data centers; activist and environmental groups have helped delay or block dozens of such projects worth billions of dollars over concerns about energy use, water consumption and environmental impacts from increased power demand.
Fox News Digital observed many movements protesting side by side at demonstrations across the country, despite their sharp ideological differences.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg, wearing a keffiyeh scarf, speaks alongside pro-Palestinian activists in Catania, Italy, before an event on the Gaza flotilla.
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“What all these protests have in common — the protests against AI data centers, the environmental protests, or the protest against Israel — is the anti-American slant within them,” Zineb Riboua, a fellow at the Hudson Institute, told Fox News Digital.
“climate change it was also one of the most fashionable causes to protest for or against, and now there is always a search to find out what the next thing is that will revolutionize,” Riboua added. “And that revolution against the United States, whatever forms and shapes it takes, is always welcome.”
Fox News Digital previously reported that Singham, a US-born tech mogul living in Shanghai, funneled nearly $285 million to six activist nonprofits that lawmakers and analysts have accused of promoting. Pro-China narratives and anti-American protest movements.
O’Leary accused local groups opposing the Utah project of being tied to China-linked funding networks and argued that the backlash reflected a broader trend of nationwide activist campaigns targeting AI infrastructure, although Fox News Digital did not independently verify the allegations regarding Utah.
Protesters react to the Box Elder County Commission’s approval of a large artificial intelligence data center project in Tremonton, Utah, on May 4, 2026. Activists opposed the proposed 40,000-acre project over concerns about water use, energy demand and environmental impacts.
Specialized Riboua Anti-Western ideological movements He warned that the overlap between climate activists, anti-Israel protesters, communists and Islamists is driven by a broader anti-American worldview that he describes as “Third Worldism,” an ideology that divides the world into “oppressors” and “oppressed” and portrays the United States and the West as the main source of global problems.
The ideology unites otherwise unrelated activist causes under a common anti-Western framework, he said.
“Third Worldism fuels anti-Americanism because the goal of Third Worldism is to fundamentally dismantle a harmonious Western society or Western country,” Riboua said. he said.
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Energy expert Brenda Shaffer, a research faculty member at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, described the broader activist convergence as part of the “red-green-green alliance”; ideological overlap between three elements: communist movements characterized by the color red; Islamist activism defined as green; and environmental protest groups symbolized by green.
They are increasingly uniting around anti-Western and anti-American causes, he said.
Riboua said the alliance has become increasingly visible as activist groups move quickly from one issue to another, from climate protests to anti-Israel demonstrations and now campaigns targeting AI infrastructure and data centers.
The overlap also became increasingly visible on the streets. At the 2024 “Climate Justice Means Free Palestine” rally in New York City, climate activists and pro-Palestinian demonstrators protested side by side.
“There is always the quest to find out what the next thing is that will be revolutionary,” he said.
People attend the “Climate Justice Means Free Palestine” rally in front of Citibank headquarters in New York City on June 18, 2024.
Riboua pointed to Thunberg’s transformation into a vocal anti-Israel activist as an example of the growing ideological overlap between climate activism and broader anti-Western protest movements.
“Greta is not an Islamist and I don’t think she has ever read Karl Marx, but she has all the good instincts of a revolutionary against the evil oppressor, the West and the United States,” Riboua said.
Shaffer warned that the growing rapprochement is increasingly affecting industries critical to America’s economic and technological competition with China.
“Energy is very important for the AI race and data centers,” Shaffer told Fox News Digital via Zoom interview.
Shaffer argued that he was targeted by activist groups in the West. fossil fuelsAI infrastructure and industrial development continue to rapidly expand Chinese coal production, manufacturing capacity, and energy production.
“So we are actually weakening the West by embracing international climate policies,” Shaffer said.
“China is really benefiting from these policies that we’ve adopted, and we’re allowing them to move forward with coal.”
Shaffer compared this trend to Soviet-backed anti-nuclear activism. cold warargues that hostile forces have historically taken advantage of anti-energy movements in the West.
Server racks with colorful cables are seen in a data center.
“Traditionally you’ve seen the Soviet Union finance movements against nuclear energy. Europe So Europe would remain dependent on Soviet and later Russian gas,” Shaffer said.
He also warned of the West’s increasing dependence. Chinese renewable energy supply chains Since China dominates a large portion of the global solar and inverter market, it could create new strategic vulnerabilities.
Shaffer argued that many activist campaigns focus on delaying or preventing energy and infrastructure projects While in the United States, China is rapidly increasing its coal consumption and industrial production.
Riboua added that many ordinary protesters are not necessarily driven by ideology, but by simplified narratives amplified through social media clickbait and activist messages.
“Some people are generally good people and want to have a moral standing,” he said. “They know the headlines… there is so much ignorance.”
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Shaffer warned that AI infrastructure requires massive amounts of reliable electricity and said the West risks falling behind China if energy costs continue to rise and infrastructure projects continue to face activist opposition.
“You can’t have a weapons industry based on solar energy,” he said.
Original article source: Experts warn that agitators combined with Chinese money are targeting data centers of hatred towards America
