Foreign Money Is Targeting American AI Infrastructure. Here's What We Know.

On May 18, 2026, the Bitcoin Policy Institute released a report titled "Foreign Influence in the Campaign against American AI." It is specific and sourced. Most major outlets have not covered it.

The report identifies three distinct vectors of foreign influence being used to kill U.S. AI data center construction:

1. A nonprofit network funded by tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham — a U.S. expatriate living in Shanghai who has spent years amplifying Chinese Communist Party propaganda narratives.
2. CCP state media running parallel messaging campaigns against American AI infrastructure.
3. Dark money connected to foreign billionaires, including Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss and British billionaire Alan Parker.

These aren't anonymous "experts" making vague claims. The Bitcoin Policy Institute names names, cites dollar amounts, and documents timelines.

The Singham Money Trail

According to Fox News Digital's prior investigation — which this report builds on — Singham funneled $285 million into six nonprofits over several years. He used a series of shell companies and a donor-advised fund established through a philanthropy arm of Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs confirmed to Fox News Digital that it terminated Singham's donor-advised fund in early 2024.

The fund is gone. The network is NOT.

One of those nonprofits is CodePink, co-founded by Jodie Evans — whom Singham married in February 2017 at a lavish wedding in Jamaica, according to Fox News Digital reporting.

On May 18, 2026 — the same day the Bitcoin Policy Institute report dropped — CodePink published a video on Instagram attacking a proposed data center project in Utah backed by investor Kevin O'Leary. According to WRGA News, which obtained the report, that timing coincided with the release.

Sanders and AOC Show Up in the Middle of This

On March 25, 2026, Senators Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced the "AI Data Center Moratorium Act" — legislation that would halt the construction of new AI data centers in the United States.

Weeks later, on April 29, Sanders hosted a Capitol Hill event titled "The Existential Threat of AI."

According to the Bitcoin Policy Institute report, two of the four panelists at that Sanders event were directly affiliated with the Chinese government.

Those two individuals were Zeng Yi, founding dean of the Beijing Institute of AI Safety and Governance, and Xue Lan, a counselor of China's State Council and chair of China's National AI Governance apparatus.

A sitting U.S. Senator hosted a Capitol Hill event on AI policy with half the featured panelists serving in China's AI governance structure.

Were Sanders or AOC aware of these connections? Did they vet their panelists? Neither Sanders nor mainstream media outlets have addressed these questions. Voters deserve answers.

What Mainstream Media Is Getting Wrong

Left-leaning outlets have framed opposition to AI data centers as a legitimate grassroots environmental and labor movement. Some of those concerns — energy consumption, water usage, local land use — are real policy debates worth having.

But the framing obscures the funding sources.

When $285 million flows from a Shanghai-based CCP propaganda amplifier through shell companies into activist nonprofits, and those nonprofits run campaigns that mirror CCP state media talking points almost word for word, "grassroots" is inaccurate. Astroturfed describes it better.

Right-leaning outlets like Fox News have covered this story, but their framing sometimes buries the specific financial data inside broader culture war narratives. The Bitcoin Policy Institute report is a policy document with documented money flows and named individuals — it deserves straight-news treatment, not just a vehicle for political shots.

The story here isn't left vs. right. It's foreign interference in American strategic infrastructure — the kind of thing that would have generated major coverage if the connections ran in a different direction.

Why This Matters

AI data centers are not a partisan issue. They are critical national infrastructure. The United States is in direct technological competition with China. Whoever leads in AI compute capacity has a massive strategic and economic advantage.

If foreign-linked money is successfully slowing U.S. AI infrastructure buildout through coordinated activist campaigns — while China races ahead domestically — this is a national security matter, not a culture war story.

The Bitcoin Policy Institute's report should be treated the same way the intelligence community treats foreign influence campaigns targeting elections: with serious, bipartisan scrutiny.

Congress should ask Bernie Sanders two straightforward questions: Who invited those Chinese government officials to your Capitol Hill AI event? And did you know who they were?

The American public is waiting for answers.