America’s AI doomers are doing Beijing’s work
Chinese state media and allied outlets are amplifying concerns about the energy demands of U.S. data centers to slow American AI development, while U.S. politicians like Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez support measures that could delay domestic data center projects. Meanwhile, China is rapidly expanding its own data center capacity with government subsidies and streamlined approvals, positioning itself to lead in global AI infrastructure. The article argues that opposition to U.S. data centers, whether foreign-influenced or domestic, risks ceding technological and economic advantage to China.
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When the Chinese Communist Party’s English-language flagship, Global Times, lectures American readers about the “high energy consumption” of U.S. data centers, it isn’t because Beijing has developed a soft spot for our electric bills. It’s because every server farm we don’t build in Texas or Virginia is one China gets to build first. That line isn’t an outlier. China Daily warns that “AI boom sends electricity bills in US skyrocketing,” Beijing’s state broadcaster CGTN has run videos pinning America’s rising power prices on “energy-hungry data centers,” and Russia’s RT and Iran’s Fars News are circulating nearly identical material aimed squarely at U.S. audiences. Sen.
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