A network of left-wing activist organizations that helped build the «No Kings» and «Tesla Takedown» protest movements is now driving opposition to AI data centers and Flock surveillance cameras across the country, according to a new report and a Fox News Digital investigation.
The report, titled «The Compute War at Home,» was commissioned by Consumer Action for a Strong Economy, an Alexandria, Virginia-based free-markets nonprofit, and uses social-media analysis from Arken Intelligence, a Washington, D.C., technology firm. It identifies a coordinated campaign that has spread from San Francisco to North Carolina, with organizations and activists previously involved in protests against President Donald Trump, Israel, Elon Musk, Tesla, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement now targeting data-center construction and automated license-plate readers.
«The money, media, organizing capacity and campaign objectives converge in the same ecosystem,» the report states.
The report traces the movement through three phases. The first began in early January 2025 with Trump's inauguration and the launch of «Tesla Takedown» demonstrations aimed at Musk and his role in cutting federal spending. That mobilization infrastructure later powered «No Kings» and «Hands Off» anti-Trump protests, anti-Israel activism, and campaigns expressing support for the Communist Party of Cuba, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.
Organizations tied to Shanghai-based tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham, including the Party for Socialism and Liberation, CodePink, the People's Forum, and the ANSWER Coalition, appeared repeatedly across those movements. They often worked alongside groups more aligned with the Democratic Party, such as Indivisible, a network partly funded by billionaire donor George Soros. Singham and the nonprofits he funded have denied taking orders from any government or political party and have not been charged with crimes, though the network has faced congressional and federal scrutiny over its funding and foreign ties.
The second phase shifted that protest infrastructure toward American technological infrastructure. Over the past year, CodePink developed a national campaign against data centers, while the Party for Socialism and Liberation's roughly 70 chapters adopted near-identical messaging and strategies. Liberation News, described as the party's newspaper, nationalized local victories and promoted moratoriums, bans, and project cancellations. Media outlets in the Singham network, such as BreathThrough News, amplified the message.
The third phase brought an ideological crossover in which Flock cameras became a bridge between local privacy and policing concerns and the national fight over artificial intelligence, cloud systems, energy, and data centers. The report does not claim every opponent of Flock cameras or data centers belongs to the activist network. It notes that opposition to Flock has become genuinely bipartisan, with legitimate concerns about privacy, data retention, misuse, and poorly written government contracts. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently ordered license-plate readers removed from state highways, Texas has moved to pull back from the technology, and Republican Senator Josh Hawley has launched an investigation into Flock over surveillance concerns.
Still, the report credits left-wing organizers with fusing the two issues into a combined campaign that has caught on with a broad coalition. According to the Arken Intelligence analysis, posts mentioning both Flock and data centers rose from 639 in the ten weeks before a spike in organizing on May 19 to 9,009 posts in the following ten weeks, a 14.1-fold increase. Among posts where political affiliation could be classified, 81 percent came from right-wing, conservative, or libertarian accounts.
«Issue pairings rarely multiply fourteen-fold in a matter of weeks without a catalyst, particularly when the surge begins immediately after organizers start promoting the connection,» the report states.
Rob Joyce, former director of cybersecurity at the National Security Agency, told Fox News Digital that such influence operations amount to cognitive warfare. «Foreign actors don't need Americans to become pro-China,» he said. «They need Americans to argue for the outcomes Beijing wants. And a free society that can't build the power and govern the advanced technology is going to wind up renting it from the adversary, read the PRC, that doesn't share its own values. And that scares me as an American.»
The report identifies at least a year of coordination among far-left activists in the Singham network, deliberately linking local disputes over data-center construction and surveillance technology to broader ideological narratives carried through national media and activist infrastructure into new communities.