Pretty sure it's mostly data centers that are fueling America's data center rage: My bills have skyrocketed and these fuckers got sweetheart deals on everything from power supply to totally avoiding any accountability for fucking up the environment, all to make rich, corrupt assholes richer.

Oh, and the power companies? Also brazenly corrupt.

Plenty that we all can and should criticize China about, but this is bullshit.

The original article is from Axios. They do point out that there's organic opposition, but the title is definitely sensational and arguably disinformation.

Now, even if they actually are adding extra to the conversation, there's still plenty of people unhappy about data centers. If foreign bots were adding noise to the Cornell case, does that invalidate what happened to Jane Doe?

We see the videos from town halls, we see the pictures of the water, we hear the recordings of the noise pollution. We see all the extra infrastructure that sometimes cuts through people's property.

There are legitimate concerns that people want to be addressed.

They're throwing matches onto a raging bonfire. Their contributions are largely inconsequential and far from responsible for the totality of Americans' disdain for data centers. Fuck this article's clickbaity headline. Also, here's the actual source of this article: https://www.axios.com/2026/08/28/china-ai-data-center-backlash-bots

Yeah, this is like saying russia is fueling the EU's housing and standard of living crisis or saying that murica was fueling the protests in Iran before the tramp attack. If that were even the case, why let your worst enemies be your best critics?

China may be fanning the flames, but the whole data-center gold rush has been built on the back of corrupt, anti-consumer backroom deals. They're an environmental disaster, both globally and even worse in the neighborhoods where they operate, and their most probable end use is as a tool for futher neo-feudalist oppression by power-hungry oligarchs. So fuck 'em. Burn 'em fucking down.

I wrote this on my own nickel, but if someone in China wants to pay me for it, that's OK. It won't induce me to be less cynical about the motives of the CCP though.

I'm no fan of the CCP but come on, it's greed and delusions of grandeur by elites all over the world fueling this bullshit

Yahoo News is owned by this terrifyingy acquisitive asset company:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganesha?wprov=sfla1

Don't see any AI ownership, but they sure have a vested interest in avoiding the stock crash that's coming.

"X said Thursday night". Well it's on X, then it must be true. Right?

including 200 accounts "posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy," the team said in a tweet.

200 accounts is fucking nothing...

Claiming that is "fueling" anything makes as much sense as me saying the 1992 Dream Team won Olympic Basketball because Spike Lee watched from his couch in NYC.

It might have happened, but it didn't change the result

Apparently it's datacenters vs. the world now lol

Can China secretly fuel America's desire to take showers and read books too

"Secretly"

Discovered by the X com team who surely has no conflict of interest where they might want to imply that there's no actual opposition...

200 accounts on X? How can China maintain such an expensive and complex influence campaign?

Of course they're stirring up shit about this. People are already pissed about it, less effort on their part to pick an existing issue.

Painting it like it originated from China is extremely disingenuous.

I don't need any help to hate data centers. Bots on Twitter didn't convince me to value clean drinking water, the high price of electricity, the lack of privacy, and all the other garbage that comes with these.

Pretty sure it's the effects of the data centers that are fuelling that. But nice try, AI bros.

Xi is probably laughing his ass off.

China is investing billions to produce ships, jets, rockets, nukes and military infrastructure, while the US is spending billions on…data centers and AI.

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."