President Donald Trump’s National Artificial Intelligence Legislative Framework, unveiled March 20, puts America on offense in the global AI race — but foreign-funded activists are mounting a coordinated campaign to choke off the data center buildout that America needs to win.

Data centers are the backbone of cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and the digital economy. They’re under coordinated attack from groups bankrolled by overseas donors who see American technological dominance as their chief threat, and the fight over whether we build them is really a fight over whether the United States intends to lead or surrender.