While tech giants and crypto miners race to build out the physical backbone of the digital economy, a political organization most Americans have never heard of has been methodically pulling the plug. The Party for Socialism and Liberation, a Marxist-Leninist group with ties to financier Neville Roy Singham, has blocked or delayed roughly $23.6 billion in data center projects across 14 states.
The damage report
The numbers come from a Bitcoin Policy Institute report dated June 30, 2026, which traced PSL’s fingerprints across a sprawling map of canceled, delayed, and permanently banned data center developments.
The biggest casualty: a $12 billion hyperscale data center project in DeForest, Wisconsin, which was blocked outright. A $5 billion facility planned for Prince George’s County, Maryland, saw its permitting process ground to a halt after PSL-led campaigns mobilized local opposition. And in Monterey Park, California, the city enacted a permanent ban on data centers, effectively closing the door on any future development in the area.
The BPI report documents PSL involvement, whether directly leading campaigns or participating in broader coalitions, across more than a dozen states. In Durham, North Carolina, PSL Triangle supported a petition seeking a 32-month moratorium on both data centers and crypto mining operations.
