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OpenAI bans China-linked ChatGPT accounts that amplified US data center electricity price backlash — used AI-generated cartoons to stoke fears over U.S. data center energy costs
Luke James
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11 June 2026
"Data Center Bandwagon" posed as Americans and built comic strips around capacity auction prices.
(Image credit: OpenAI)
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OpenAI says it has
banned two clusters of ChatGPT accounts
it believes are operating from China, which used its models for covert influence campaigns targeting U.S. tech and policy debates, including one called “Data Center Bandwagon,” that produced social media comments and comic strips blaming AI data centers for rising household electricity bills. Whoever was operating the accounts prompted ChatGPT in Simplified Chinese via VPNs, and posed on X as Americans from a range of backgrounds. Yet OpenAI’s full threat report found that the activity generated virtually no authentic engagement.
A second cluster, "Tech and Tariffs," generated anti-tariff cartoons under instructions to depict President Trump but never Chinese leader Xi Jinping, and was linked to a network of fake X accounts spreading false claims that ChatGPT user data had been stolen.
OpenAI assessed that the Data Center Bandwagon operators were likely a
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