- X said its safety team identified approximately 200,000 inauthentic Chinese accounts involved in online “influence operations,” with about 200 accounts posting in ways the platform said could manipulate legitimate debate over U.S. artificial intelligence and energy policy. The accounts promoted messages opposing AI and the data centers needed to support it.
- According to X, posts claimed AI data centers were raising household electricity costs and straining the power grid, while other accounts circulated AI-generated cartoons portraying data center developers as profiting at the public’s expense. X characterized the activity as an attempt to influence an ongoing American policy debate rather than ordinary public opposition to data centers.
- The article also reported that OpenAI earlier identified and banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts it said likely originated in China and were being used to generate content for a covert influence operation primarily targeting U.S. audiences. That content similarly focused on claims that AI and data centers were increasing electricity demand and costs. X said it suspends accounts that violate its authenticity policy.