No Kings Network Fights AI Data Centers and Flock Cameras
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What happened
A report titled "The Compute War at Home," commissioned by Alexandria, Va., nonprofit Consumer Action for a Strong Economy and using social-media analysis by Arken Intelligence, was published and first reported by Fox News Digital. It documents public campaigns by groups including the Party for Socialism and Liberation, CodePink, the People’s Forum, and ANSWER Coalition — organizations that also took part in "No Kings" and related protests — against AI data-center construction and Flock license-plate cameras, with named actions in Denver, Charlotte, N.C., and Tucson, Ariz. The analysis counted posts mentioning both Flock and data centers rising from 639 in the 10 weeks before May 19 to 9,009 in the following 10 weeks. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Texas officials, and Sen. Josh Hawley have separately restricted or scrutinized Flock cameras over privacy and contract concerns. Shanghai-based tech entrepreneur Neville Roy Singham, a funder of some of the named groups, and the organizations deny taking orders from any government; they have not been charged, though Singham’s network faces congressional inquiries and a Southern District of New York grand jury investigation.
BLINDSPOT.
Only right-leaning outlets are covering this story
— the other side's media is silent.
Omitted — what each side leaves out
Unpacked
Left-leaning coverage has not reported this story. Right-leaning coverage says the activist ecosystem behind No Kings protests is now organizing against data centers and Flock cameras, linking local privacy fights to a national campaign against AI infrastructure. The claim rests on a report from Consumer Action for a Strong Economy and on groups tied to Shanghai-based funder Neville Roy Singham, as told by Fox News and Daily Wire. A reader of only left-leaning outlets would not encounter the allegation that those organizers fused the two issues into one fight.
Right-leaning outlets split on how to measure the effect. A single account, in Daily Wire, cites delayed or blocked investment of $23.6 billion. The other main write-up, in Fox News, instead quotes a former NSA official calling the campaigns "cognitive warfare."
If camera opposition is already bipartisan, how much of any stalled data-center construction traces to this network rather than to privacy fights Republicans have opened on their own?
Bottom line
A left-leaning reader would not know a report now claims the No Kings protest machine is targeting AI data centers, or that Daily Wire says that fight has already held up $23.6 billion in projects.
The receipts — 6 facts one side's coverage lacks
- Organizations tied to the No Kings protest network, including the Party for Socialism and Liberation and CodePink, are leading campaigns against data centers and Flock cameras, according to a report commissioned by Consumer Action for a Strong Economy
- Posts mentioning both Flock and data centers rose from 639 in the 10 weeks before May 19 to 9,009 in the following 10 weeks
- Among posts mentioning both issues whose political affiliation could be classified, 81% came from right-wing, conservative, or libertarian accounts
- The report identifies four dropped data-center projects, 10 local construction moratoriums, and one permanent ban
- Flock uses less than 0.1% of the capacity of a single data center, according to chief strategy officer Rahul Sidhu
- The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York launched a grand jury investigation into Neville Roy Singham and his nonprofit network
The Right View
Fox News and The Daily Wire report that the activist ecosystem behind "No Kings" is now a major force against AI data centers and Flock cameras, with money, media, and organizing overlapping around Neville Roy Singham. They describe a repeatable model: local grievances are tied to a national ideological narrative, then amplified through activist media. They cite Denver PSL’s slogan "FIGHTING BACK AGAINST DATA CENTERS MEANS FIGHTING FOR SOCIALISM," a Charlotte PSL post that sent readers to nodatacentersnc.com, a Tucson event billed "It’s ALL Connected," and CodePink’s "DATA CENTERS AND THE WAR ECONOMY" campaign linking facilities to Palantir, ICE, and military contractors. Former NSA official Rob Joyce is quoted calling the campaigns "cognitive warfare" that can produce outcomes Beijing wants without making Americans pro-China. Daily Wire cites the report’s tally of four dropped data-center projects, 10 moratoriums, one ban, and about $23.6 billion in delayed or blocked investment. Both outlets note Flock opposition is also bipartisan and that, among posts with a classified affiliation, 81% came from conservative or libertarian accounts. They recap FARA-related congressional scrutiny and the SDNY grand jury probe; named groups deny wrongdoing.
Our Take (balanced)
The package is substantive on checkable particulars — named groups, dates, cities, slogans, a website, and quantified social-media counts — not a single anonymous quote. Established: PSL, CodePink, and allied groups have publicly opposed data centers and Flock cameras and have explicitly linked the two; some of those groups overlap with the No Kings protest ecosystem; Flock cameras have drawn separate Republican action on privacy grounds. Alleged, not proven: that this is coordinated foreign-influence or "cognitive warfare" serving Chinese interests; that the 14-fold post surge and billions in delayed investment were caused by that network; and any operational control by Singham or Beijing. Those claims are denied, and no charges have been filed. The report was commissioned by a free-markets advocacy nonprofit, so its causal inferences are not independent journalism. No left-leaning outlet has reported this. Watch for the full report and Arken methodology; responses from PSL, CodePink, Indivisible, and Singham; independent confirmation of the project-delay tally; and any FARA determination or charging decision from Congress or SDNY.
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