OpenAI says China-based actors stoking opposition to AI data centres

OpenAI has banned a cluster of accounts likely based in China for attempting to manipulate a debate about American AI. The accounts generated social media comments and images blaming data centres for rising electricity prices in US communities. They also created content casting US tariffs as an effort to dominate technological competition with China, without mentioning Chinese leader Xi Jinping. OpenAI found no evidence that the campaign had a meaningful influence, but said it is a common tactic for foreign influence operations to exploit existing public concerns.