A growing coalition of climate activists, anti-Israel protesters, and communist-linked movements has found a new common cause: shutting down American AI data centers. That is the finding of a new investigation from Fox News Digital, which reported that these disparate activist groups are increasingly converging around campaigns that experts say weaken America’s competitive position against China in the global AI race. Fox News Digital laid out the warning this way: Climate activists, anti-Israel protesters and other activist movements with very different agendas have become strange bedfellows united by a shared disdain for America and funding from China, according to experts who warn the trend is weakening the United States amid a rapidly accelerating AI race. Critics say the same activist ecosystem is now targeting America’s AI infrastructure and industrial power, in a development that experts warn could undermine the United States in its technological competition with China. The growing convergence increasingly includes communist and Islamist activist movements, and it recently extended into campaigns targeting America’s artificial intelligence data centers, with activist and environmental groups helping delay or block dozens of such projects worth billions of dollars over concerns about energy use, water consumption and environmental impact amid rising power demand. Fox News Digital has observed many of the movements protesting side-by-side at demonstrations across the country despite their otherwise stark ideological differences. Activists from CodePink, which Fox described as a far-left feminist activist group that has received funds from Neville Roy Singham, recently circulated a video attacking a Utah data center project backed by investor Kevin O’Leary. Climate activists, anti-Israel protesters, and anti-AI groups now target U.S. data centers worth billions — forming what experts call a 'red-green-green alliance' that weakens America's tech race against China. Hudson Institute fellow says the common thread binding these… pic.twitter.com/5MS9MSFHw9 — Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) May 24, 2026 Zineb Riboua, a fellow at the Hudson Institute, told Fox News Digital that the pattern is unmistakable. Fox News Digital quoted Riboua directly: “What all of these protests have in common — the protests against AI data centers or the environmental protests or the protest against Israel — is that anti-American trend within them,” Hudson Institute fellow Zineb Riboua told Fox News Digital. “Climate change was also one of those very trendy causes to protest for or against, and now there’s always this quest to find what is the next thing to revolutionize,” Riboua added. “And this revolution against the United States is always welcome, no matter what type of forms and shapes it takes.” Fox News Digital also reported that Singham, a U.S.-born tech tycoon living in Shanghai, “funneled roughly $285 million into six activist nonprofits accused by lawmakers and analysts of promoting pro-China narratives and anti-American protest movements.” The report tied those accusations to lawmakers and analysts, keeping the funding claim focused on the reported activist network rather than every protester on the ground. Riboua warned that “Third Worldism” casts the United States and the West as the source of global problems, uniting otherwise unrelated activist causes under one anti-Western framework. Energy expert Brenda Shaffer described what she sees as a “red-green-green alliance” involving communist movements, Islamist activism, and environmental protest groups. Shaffer warned that energy is the backbone of the AI race, and that China stands to benefit directly when Western countries sabotage their own energy and industrial capacity from within. Fox News Digital also quoted Shaffer on the energy stakes behind the AI race: Energy expert Brenda Shaffer, a research faculty member at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, described the broader activist convergence as part of a “red-green-green alliance,” an ideological overlap between three elements: communist movements, characterized by the color red; Islamist activism, described as green; and environmental protest groups, symbolized as green. Shaffer warned the growing convergence is increasingly affecting industries critical to America’s economic and technological competition with China. “Energy is crucial to the AI race, to the data centers,” Shaffer told Fox News Digital, arguing that while activist groups in the West target fossil fuels, AI infrastructure, and industrial development, China continues rapidly expanding coal production, manufacturing capacity, and energy generation. “China really benefits from these policies that we adopt and we just let them keep forging ahead with coal,” Shaffer said, comparing the pattern to Cold War-era anti-nuclear activism that benefited Soviet energy leverage in Europe. Shaffer also warned that Western dependence on Chinese renewable-energy supply chains can create strategic vulnerabilities because China dominates major parts of the global solar and inverter market. Expert warns ‘red-green-green alliance’ helping China gain AI edge https://t.co/wyo4aAi3ey via @@YahooNews — Brenda Shaffer (@ProfBShaffer) May 24, 2026 The concern is not hypothetical. Fox News Digital previously reported that Neville Roy Singham, a U.S.-born tech tycoon living in Shanghai, funneled roughly $285 million into six activist nonprofits. Lawmakers and analysts have accused those nonprofits of promoting pro-China narratives and fueling anti-American protest movements. Fox noted that activist groups have also targeted a Utah data center project backed by investor Kevin O’Leary, though Fox reported it had not independently verified O’Leary’s specific claim that China-linked funding was behind the Utah opposition. Climate activists, anti-Israel protesters, and anti-AI groups are now coordinating attacks on U.S. data centers. Three movements with nothing in common ideologically except one thing: opposition to America. A Hudson Institute fellow calls it a "red-green-green alliance." The… https://t.co/LTQGhC5bsV pic.twitter.com/LR9e5rSovN — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 24, 2026 The bigger picture is hard to ignore. The United States is in an all-out sprint to build the AI infrastructure needed to stay ahead of China, and President Trump has made energy dominance and AI leadership central pillars of his agenda. Every data center that gets blocked or delayed is a win for Beijing, whether the activists on the ground realize it or not. The convergence of these movements around anti-data-center campaigns represents a serious strategic vulnerability at exactly the moment America can least afford one. When the climate movement, anti-Israel radicals, and communist sympathizers all end up pulling in the same direction, it is worth asking who benefits most from the result. The answer is not the United States.