Better late than never: The House Ways and Means Committee has issued subpoenas to three parts of the Singham network — the snarl of activist nonprofits funded by expatriate, Chinese Communist Party-loving gazillionaire Neville Roy Singham — to get a handle on its possible roles in money laundering, amplifying CCP propaganda and pushing political violence.

We say “late” because Singham tools like the People’s Forum have already played a key role in fomenting the antisemitic hate that’s poisoned New York and other parts of the nation.

And because these outfits also play a key role in China’s war on US data centers — a yearslong campaign that’s now borne fruit in dozens of localities across the country (including a new push in Pennsylvania) as well Gov. Kathy Hochul’s statewide New York ban.

An ongoing series of reports from the Bitcoin Policy Institute lays out how the Singham network amplifies Beijing’s drive to feed Americans’ fears of data centers, along with China’s open propaganda efforts and support from other foreigners such as Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss and British billionaire Alan Parker’s Oak Foundation. 

China’s determined to beat US companies to world dominance in AI, and aborting US data centers can cripple American AI development.

Never mind that the fearmongering is baseless: Data centers use less water than any other industry, increasingly get built with their own power plants — and create good jobs, not least in construction.

Beijing’s meddling in our politics involves many outrages, but the data-center smear may be the most blatant — and perhaps the most successful.