'Chinese influence ops vs datacenters' persists partly because it's true
harris_edouard · x · 2026-09-11
- In his trope-tracking thread, Edouard Harris notes that claims about Chinese influence ops amplifying community resistance to AI datacenter construction persist because they're partly true.
- He adds that these communities also have legitimate grievances about how datacenters are being rolled out—the world isn't black and white. The thread also frames keeping China behind in AI as policy's hardest problem.
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