Foreign Money Fuels Data Center Backlash | Salt Lake City News

Salt Lake City News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Aug 3, 2026 · 1m

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…