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Foreign Money Fuels Data Center Backlash | Salt Lake City News
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Data centers, the invisible engines behind our digital lives, are suddenly under fire—labeled by some as “the most dangerous thing ever built.” Amid viral outrage, whispers of foreign influence swirl: Chinese state media stokes anti-data center narratives to slow U.S. AI dominance, while European billionaires like Hansjörg Wyss and Christopher Hohn, long funding U.S. environmental groups, now push for a national pause on new data centers. Legal but murky, this global chess game pits tech infrastructure against geopolitics, with money flowing through shell companies and advocacy groups shaping the debate.
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