Fox News Digital said a hard-left network behind "No Kings" and other protests is leading the fight against AI data centers and Flock surveillance cameras, according to a newsletter published Sept. 4, 2026, at 11:01 a.m. EDT. The same report said data-center development has become one of the top hot-button political issues in the United States, with communities now pushed into the path of a boom built for corporate AI and the power grid upgrades that come with it.
Who Has the Power
The newsletter said data centers depend on transmission lines and substations capable of delivering enormous amounts of power reliably, often requiring costly grid upgrades. That’s the machinery behind the glossy promises: huge facilities, huge demand, and a bill that doesn’t vanish into thin air. It lands somewhere. Usually on the people living nearest the project, the ones expected to absorb the noise, the strain, and the infrastructure churn while the companies and their allies talk about progress.
The report also said some experts are sounding the alarm on left-wing groups and climate activists who are pouring money and resources into data-center opposition campaigns. Fox News framed that as a threat. The people on the ground would likely call it resistance. Either way, the fight is over who gets to decide what gets built, where it gets built, and who pays for the damage when the grid and the local community are bent to serve the machine.
Who Gets Crushed
A farming town in central Washington with roughly 8,100 people has become an unlikely showcase for America’s data-center boom, the newsletter said. That’s the scale of the imbalance right there. A small town gets turned into a proving ground for a national AI push, while the consequences of those decisions are pushed down to people who didn’t design the system and don’t control it.
The newsletter said President Donald Trump took aim Monday at the growing backlash against data centers, warning that communities that shut the door on the facilities risk missing out on the jobs and economic gains of America’s AI boom. That’s the usual bargain from above: accept the project, accept the disruption, accept the promise of jobs and growth, or be told you’re standing in the way of prosperity. Communities are left choosing between corporate expansion and the threat of being cut out of the rewards that were never really theirs to begin with.
What They’re Calling Progress
Fox News also said America’s rivals stand to gain from a growing backlash against the data centers powering the nation’s AI boom and foreign money is helping fuel it, Brittany Kaiser warned. That warning turns the whole dispute into a geopolitical morality play, but the basic conflict stays the same. The apparatus wants the facilities. The communities have to live with them. And when people push back, the language of national competition gets dragged in to make resistance sound like a liability instead of a response to imposed development.
The newsletter said the same network behind "No Kings" and other protests is now organizing against AI data centers and the use of Flock cameras. That places surveillance and infrastructure in the same frame, because they’re part of the same order: one builds the digital backbone, the other watches the people underneath it. The report didn’t say the communities asked for any of this. It said they’re fighting it.
The Wall Street Journal source could not be retrieved, leaving Fox News Digital’s account as the public version of events in the newsletter. Even so, the outline is clear enough. Big power needs big infrastructure. Big infrastructure needs land, money, and compliance. And when ordinary people object, they get described as a problem for the system instead of the people living through it.
The newsletter was published Sept. 4, 2026, at 11:01 a.m. EDT, one day after the report said Trump attacked the backlash on Monday, Sept. 1, 2026. The timing fits the script. The facilities move forward. The warnings come from above. The communities are expected to adjust.