China is trying to influence the AI data center debate in the United States. How effective it’s been is another question.
X said on Thursday that it uncovered a 200,000-strong Chinese bot farm and that a couple hundred of those accounts posted disparaging content about data centers “in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy.”
What X didn’t disclose, according to Darren Linvill, a researcher at Clemson University, is that at least 59 of those bots had zero engagement and were likely quickly deactivated by X before they could garner a following.
While it’s still possible some X users saw the posts…
