US right-wing officials and data center investors are increasingly alleging that the growing opposition to data centers in the United States is being funded and influenced by the Chinese government. OpenAI recently reported on Chinese-origin accounts spreading anti-data-center messages, though it found no "meaningful breakout" of this content.
Experts, including those from Graphika and the Brookings Institution, express skepticism regarding claims of organized foreign influence, asserting that domestic US actors primarily drive the online anti-data-center conversation. Local opposition has significantly increased, with a Heatmap poll showing over half of Americans support a moratorium on data center development, and US support for data centers being the lowest among 15 countries surveyed by Public First. Republican Senator Tom Cotton and House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders have called for investigations into alleged Chinese Communist Party influence. However, social media analytics company Graphika has "not yet seen evidence of organized or scaled influence operations" traceable to a foreign actor, beyond minor, sporadic instances.
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