WASHINGTON – AI Infrastructure Coalition Co-Chair Garret Graves sent a letter to House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast, House Select Subcommittee on the Chinese Communist Party Chairman John Moolenaar, and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith. In the letter, Graves applauded their committees’ work to investigate and expose efforts by the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliates to undermine America’s strategic interests in AI infrastructure development and innovation.
“If these allegations are true, they represent something deeply troubling: a foreign adversary exploiting America’s openness, freedoms, and democratic institutions in an effort to influence public debate surrounding strategically important infrastructure,” Graves wrote. “Americans have every right to debate the merits of individual projects. What they should not face is covert foreign interference designed to manipulate those debates for the benefit of a geopolitical competitor.”
Graves writes that China’s efforts to win the AI race now appear to extend beyond technology and investment into a coordinated influence campaign designed to slow America’s buildout from the inside. The letter points to waves of bot-driven social media posts traced to South Asia, North Africa, Poland, and Bangladesh — including fake, local Facebook pages such as “Indiana Life” and “Kansas Life” that exist solely to turn public opinion against AI data center projects. Independent reporting cited in the letter also ties on-the-ground organizing against AI infrastructure to the Party for Socialism and Liberation, active in roughly nine to ten campaigns from Maryland to Arizona. That network’s largest documented funder, according to the letter, is Neville Roy Singham, a Shanghai-based billionaire who operates alongside a CCP propaganda outfit.
Separate research from the Bitcoin Policy Institute and Power the Future traces how that foreign money moves through American nonprofits to slow the country’s data center and AI buildout.
Graves highlights the impact AI infrastructure has on Americans’ daily lives, including healthcare, the economy, and national security. The United States operates more than 60% of the world’s data processing capacity, making America the global leader in AI infrastructure. McKinsey and PwC project that continued AI infrastructure investment could add trillions of dollars in annual economic value by the end of the decade.
Graves notes that China has made AI leadership a strategic national priority, pouring an estimated $70 billion into data centers this year alone and adding fifteen times more power capacity than the United States did in 2024 — which he says is exactly why a foreign-backed campaign to slow America’s buildout would be so valuable to Beijing.
“Just as American leadership in aviation, computing, telecommunications, and the internet helped advance free markets, open societies, and democratic institutions around the world, leadership in artificial intelligence will help determine whether the next generation of transformative technologies is shaped primarily by American values and democratic principles or by authoritarian interests,” Graves wrote. “China understands these stakes and has made AI leadership a strategic national priority. That is why efforts to slow America’s AI infrastructure buildout are so consequential.”
Graves urges the four committees to make their findings public, so Americans can tell the difference between genuine concerns and a campaign engineered to benefit a geopolitical rival.