Something curious is happening in town halls and zoning meetings across America. From suburban Maryland to the Arizona desert, from Wisconsin’s statehouse to California’s San Gabriel Valley, the same pattern keeps repeating: residents show up worried about water use, power demand, or noise from a proposed data center—and standing next to them, megaphones in hand, are organizers from Code Pink and a Marxist-Leninist political party headquartered in Washington, D.C.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) has quietly become one of the most visible forces in the rapidly escalating war on American AI infrastructure. By a conservative count, PSL chapters have led or organized anti-data center protests in at least nine to ten distinct campaigns since late 2025. The Dossier found a significant presence in Prince George’s County, Maryland; East Charlotte, North Carolina; Tucson; Springfield, Illinois; Madison and Milwaukee; St. Louis; the Puente Hills; Atlanta’s DeKalb County; and northern Minnesota, among others.