No Kings Network Drives 14-Fold Surge in Protests Against AI Data Centers, Flock Cameras
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Updated · Fox News · Sep 3
No Kings Network Drives 14-Fold Surge in Protests Against AI Data Centers, Flock Cameras
2 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 3
Summary
A new report says activists tied to the “No Kings” protest ecosystem coordinated opposition to AI data centers and Flock license-plate readers, turning local fights from Denver to Charlotte into a national campaign.
Arken Intelligence found posts mentioning both Flock and data centers jumped from 639 in the 10 weeks before May 19 to 9,009 in the following 10 weeks, suggesting organizers deliberately fused the issues.
The report links that effort to groups funded by Shanghai-based tycoon Neville Roy Singham, including CodePink and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, while noting those groups deny foreign influence or wrongdoing.
Flock became the campaign’s most effective local entry point because privacy and policing complaints could be expanded into broader attacks on AI, cloud systems and computing infrastructure; Flock says it uses less than 0.1% of one data center’s capacity.
The findings land as Singham’s network faces escalating scrutiny from Congress and a Southern District of New York grand jury probe into possible money laundering, wire fraud and bank fraud.