X Claims It Found a Chinese Bot Farm Posting Anti-AI Data Center Sentiments
On 27 August 2026 X’s Global Government Affairs account said its Safety team had identified a Chinese bot farm of roughly 200,000 inauthentic accounts, and that 200 of them were posting comic strips and text claiming AI data centers raise household electricity bills and strain local grids. This breakdown covers exactly what X disclosed and in what words, how the artwork ties the accounts to the “Data Center Bandwagon” campaign OpenAI named and banned in June 2026, why 200 accounts are a rounding error next to a domestic backlash that has stalled roughly $130 billion of construction in a single quarter, what PJM capacity prices and Goldman Sachs forecasts say about electricity bills, and the methodology X has still not published.
