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The Political Hot Potato: AI Data Centers

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Weird Tolkienish Figure:
Nimby's killing new housing project is another annoyance of mine, especially when the idiots then turn around and complain about housing prices.

mountaineer:
June 10, 2026
PRC-linked influence operations are targeting AI debates in the US
--- Quote ---Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. We advance this mission by deploying our innovations to build democratic AI: AI shaped by democratic principles, governed by common-sense rules and designed to help people solve hard problems while protecting them from real harm. That mission also requires identifying and disrupting attempts by authoritarian regimes and their proxies to use AI systems to coerce critics, surveil communities or covertly interfere in democratic societies.

In this report, we describe two clusters of ChatGPT accounts likely originating from China that we banned after they used our models in support of apparent covert influence operations that promoted narratives in an attempt to manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and wider tech policies.

The first cluster generated social media comments and images claiming that data center buildouts for AI were increasing electricity prices for average families. We named this cluster the “Data Center Bandwagon” campaign.

The second cluster generated comments and images criticizing US tariffs as attempts to dominate technological competition and specified in their prompts that the content should not include China’s leader Xi Jinping in the output and instead include only President Trump. This cluster was connected to a network of likely inauthentic social media accounts that were also likely targeting OpenAI by claiming ChatGPT user data had been compromised. These allegations were entirely false. We named this second cluster the “Tech and Tariffs” campaign.

The targeting of OpenAI and US data center buildouts is significant not because the operation appears to have shifted public opinion, but because it shows PRC-origin influence operators testing narratives against AI infrastructure – a foundation of US technological leadership, economic growth and the broader democratic AI ecosystem.  ...
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https://openai.com/index/prc-linked-influence-operations-ai-debates/

DefiantMassRINO:
AI Data Centers = return of "non-renewable" sources of electricity to fulfill demands.

Global Climate Change (aka Decarbonization) aligns with the Chinese Communist's Party's desire to hollow-out and defeat American from within.

These are great mustard seeds for economic growth and ecnomic diversification in areas that allow them.  The energy and communications infrastructure built to accomodate AI Data Centers can also be leveraged to attract other business and industries.

Co-locating AI Data Centers with scalable sources of electricity and Academic Institutions creates a base for new innovation zones and incubation zones.  These can spur future economic growth and opportunity for those in proximity.

America is not only in an AI race with the Chi-coms, we are also in an electron (electricity) race that we have been losing since the first appearance of Man-Bear-Pig.

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