X Users Call Data Center Critics Chinese Bots
Posts accuse data center opponents of aiding Chinese influence operations.
Beff Jezos, Nic Carter and Shaun Maguire posted that resistance to data centers stems from Chinese bot activity or useful idiots for the CCP. They cited X suspending roughly 200,000 inauthentic accounts, some focused on household energy costs from AI facilities. Jezos said the e/acc movement was built to counter such memetic attacks. Dan Primack replied that data centers employ far fewer local workers than auto plants once construction ends. The posts urge readers to reject the sentiment as foreign psyops while China expands its own data center capacity.
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…
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Polymarket@PolymarketBREAKING: 𝕏 reveals it uncovered a Chinese bot farm of roughly 200,000 accounts, including hundreds used to influence U.S. debate over AI data centers & energy policy.
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NC nic carter@nic_carterIf you’re participating in the anti datacenter moral panic you are either - a literal Chinese bot - a useful idiot for China https://twitter.com/globalaffairs/status/2093130747796148634
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B( Beff (e/acc)@beffjezosThe damage to the collective unconscious is done unfortunately It is now official that anyone that opposes data centers is a useful idiot for the CCP https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/2093139809346658523
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AG AG@AGHamilton29X has now confirmed a Chinese bot farm of 200K fake accounts intentionally trying to manipulate public opinion against data centers. People might want to consider how common this has become and how it is manipulating multiple policy discussions on social media.
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SM Shaun Maguire@shaunmmaguireData centers are the auto factories of the 21st century They will revive communities The negative sentiment started with China, while they build gigawatts of data centers Do not succumb to the PsyOp https://twitter.com/globalaffairs/status/2093130747796148634
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B( Beff (e/acc)@beffjezosI really tried to immunize the population against Decel psyops from foreign adversaries as I knew this was coming years ago e/acc movement was to serve as a cognitive immune system against these adversarially engineered memetic manipulations We need to scale it beyond X…
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