The Commies Are the Problem. Can’t We Agree to Not Help Them?

Speaker Mike Johnson made headlines by correctly calling opposition to data centers a “Chinese psyop.”

That language is blunt, but the larger point is hard to dispute: Communist China wants the United States to fail in the race for artificial intelligence. Beijing would be thrilled to watch Americans frighten themselves into stopping the energy production, data centers, and computing infrastructure needed to compete.

Not everyone with concerns about a data center is a communist. That is not the argument. Questions about water, electricity rates, land use, and transparency are legitimate. Johnson acknowledged as much, saying developers must earn community trust, protect ratepayers, and address concerns about water resources.

But there is a difference between demanding safeguards and sabotaging our own future.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jamie Davis has called for a moratorium on new data centers in Louisiana “period.” That would not stop artificial intelligence. It would not stop China from building computing capacity. It would simply send American investment, construction jobs, tax revenue, and technological leadership somewhere else.

Data centers should pay their own way. Families should not subsidize Big Tech’s electric infrastructure. Drinking-water supplies should be protected. Companies should disclose their plans and keep their promises.

Those things are happening in Louisiana.

America cannot defeat Communist China by refusing to build the infrastructure of the future. Louisiana cannot create prosperity by telling investors to take billions of dollars, thousands of construction jobs, and new opportunities somewhere else.

The commies are the problem.

Can’t Republicans and Democrats at least agree to stop helping them?