The mass build-up of data centers across the United States has sparked a massive backlash for mostly understandable reasons. But one anti-data center activist went too far, and a resurfaced video perfectly explains why.
As NPR reported last week, a Maryland woman named Taylor Frazier McCollum successfully helped block a $5 billion data center campus that was supposed to be built on nearly 90 acres of empty land in Landover, Md.
This land used to be Landover Mall.
In 2024, the developer that built the mall won approval from county planners for the data center.
McCollum lived less than a mile away from the proposed project and quickly sprang into action.
“I was like, ‘Oh, hell no,’” she told NPR. “Why would you want to bring water-polluting, diesel-generating data centers right down the street from where people live, work, play? It just didn’t make sense to me.”
McCollum then created a petition in June 2025 that initially failed to take off until the Marxist Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), which is linked to Beijing-based tech mogul and left-wing donor Neville Roy Singham, shared a video of her explaining the petition and accusing the data center developers of “environmental racism.”
With the PSL’s help, the petition garnered 25,000 signatures.
In September 2025, Prince George’s County executive Aisha Braveboy issued a ‘temporary’ moratorium on data center permits, halting the Landover project. This moratorium has been extended several times and is set to expire at the end of this year.
McCollum now wants the area filled with a trampoline park, which would generate far less revenue than the data center would.
Now, a video has emerged via The Daily Wire that explains the worldview of communists like McCollum and the fantasy world they live in.
In the video, McCollum claims that money is just a “made-up concept.” That is news to the billions of people around the world who use some form of currency every day to conduct business and make a living.
“Money, you know, is a made-up concept,” she says in the video. “We buy into it every day and choose to say that this has value, and that doesn’t have value.”
WATCH:
Maryland activist who blocked a $5 billion data center from coming to her cash-strapped county says “money is a made-up concept.” https://t.co/PGFHwqKWYp
— Brecca Stoll (@breccastoll) November 12, 2026
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