Fox News reports that several left-wing and climate activist groups are coordinating campaigns against the growing number of data centres being built across the United States, with energy industry figures alleging the opposition is being funded and directed by major progressive donor networks rather than arising organically at grassroots level. Larry Behrens of Power The Future likened the pattern to previous fights over the Dakota Access Pipeline and fossil fuel production, arguing that seemingly local protests share identical messaging, legal arguments and branding, which he says points to coordinated financing rather than genuine community-led opposition.

The article names several groups involved, including Public Citizen, the Sierra Club, CodePink and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and links them to funding sources such as George Soros's Open Society Foundations, Arabella Advisors' Sixteen Thirty Fund (reportedly $3.6 million to the Sierra Club between 2014 and 2022), and financier Neville Roy Singham, who has ties to the Chinese Communist Party and has directed roughly $285 million to activist nonprofits. Texas is cited as a key battleground, with groups forming the "Texas Data Center Rebellion" and holding events such as the "Defend Dog's Head" forum in Austin, while Behrens attributes the opposition primarily to hostility towards fossil fuels and President Trump's support for American AI development.