(Zero Hedge)—Social media giant X said on Thursday that it identified a bot farm of roughly 200,000 suspected Chinese accounts – 200 of which were “posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy.” In short: the bots were amplifying pitchfork grievances Americans already hold against data centers.
X’s Global Government Affairs team wrote:
The X Safety team conducted an investigation into suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts involved in influence operations: We identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts.
Within this farm, we found 200 accounts posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy.
The team said the flagged accounts leaned on price and grid fears – and on AI-generated political cartoons:
These posts contained claims that AI data centers are driving up household electricity prices and straining the grid. Others included AI-generated cartoons that depicted data-center operators enriching themselves at the public’s expense.
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About those claims: they aren’t fringe. PJM Interconnection, the nation’s largest grid, serving some 67 million people across 13 states, has an independent market monitor, Monitoring Analytics, whose president Joseph Bowring concluded the last three capacity auctions “were not competitive, primarily as a result of the inclusion of forecast demand for data centers.”
His firm attributes $29.4 billion – 46% of all capacity charges across the last four auctions – to data center load, and wholesale power costs in the region jumped 76% year-over-year in the first quarter. Among the material X’s flagged accounts reportedly shared: news coverage of that same 76% figure.
According to a Gallup poll published in May, 71% of Americans oppose building AI data centers in their local area, including 48% ‘strongly opposed’ – and only about a quarter in favor. Opposition crosses party lines: Gallup’s breakdowns showed 63% of Republicans strongly or somewhat opposed to a data center where they live, while a July Fox News poll found that 60% of Republicans and 53% of self-described “MAGA Republicans” oppose data centers where they live.
So while China clearly benefits from added friction to America’s AI buildout, the opposition is real. Now, techbros and X are suggesting that bad actors may be using that to their advantage.
Earlier this summer, Y Combinator founder Garry Tan, who also founded the civic engagement organization Garry’s List, cited a Bitcoin Policy Institute report detailing a “coordinated foreign influence campaign against American AI, running through CCP state media, a Shanghai-based Marxist’s nonprofit network, and foreign billionaire dark money that has funneled $2B+ into US advocacy infrastructure.”
Garry’s List noted, “AI doomerism isn’t as organic as it looks.”
At the center of the nonprofit network is China-based Marxist Neville Roy Singham, who has reportedly funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into left-wing nonprofits, media operations, and activist networks – which critics say are built to disrupt, sow chaos, and spread communism inside the US.
In June, U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton for the Southern District of New York, with authorization from Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, moved forward with an investigation to examine whether Singham, NGOs he funded, or their leaders committed wire fraud, bank fraud, money laundering, or other financial crimes.
With federal investigators circling the revolutionary Singham NGO sphere, Garry’s List noted that Singham’s Party for Socialism and Liberation has “run 21 campaigns across 14 states that delayed, scaled back, or blocked $23.6 billion in AI infrastructure investment.”
The maximalist version of this case has been made before. Nearly one year ago, we cited a book titled China’s Total War Strategy: Next-Generation Weapons of Mass Destruction, published by the CCP BioThreats Initiative and authored by Dr. Ryan Clarke, LJ Eads, Dr. Robert McCreight, and Dr. Xiaoxu Sean Lin. The book argues the CCP has been pursuing an aggressive, multifaceted “total war” against the US that leverages next-generation weapons, including synthetic narcotics, such as fentanyl and cannabinoids; bioweapons, such as COVID-19; psychological manipulation and influence, such as TikTok; and a broad arsenal of irregular warfare tools.
In a similar vein, the State Department has released a new 100-page report, “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism,” which details Cuba’s foreign subversion apparatus and its deep reach into America’s left wing – which, the report argues, seeks nothing less than to destroy the nation from within.
Public Policy Solutions pointed out on X, “More than $2 billion in foreign money is fueling the war on American data centers,” adding, “Bernie & AOC’s data center ban is China’s dream come true. While Beijing builds AI infrastructure at record speed, they’re funding the movement to kill ours.”
Both things can be true: Beijing would love more friction in America’s AI buildout, and 71% of Americans – including a majority of self-described MAGA Republicans – didn’t need Beijing’s help to read their own electric bills. Whether 200 accounts ever moved a single vote is unknowable, while the capacity costs they were amplifying land on 67 million ratepayers every month. Heading into November, the question is which opposition the buildout’s defenders would rather run against – 200 bots, or 67 million utility bills?
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