X found 200,000 Chinese bot accounts, including hundreds built to turn Americans against AI data centers. The method is smarter than anything Russia ever ran. The bots barely had to lie. When OpenAI banned a similar China-linked network in June, it traced the accounts to a private Chinese tech firm working for provincial government clients. Their main tactic was sharing links to legitimate news coverage of grid capacity auctions and rising power bills. Accurate journalism, pushed by fake…