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
… While no grid operator was named, capacity auction pricing links back to a real, well-documented dispute: PJM Interconnection's independent market monitor has blamed data centers for an "irreversible" 75.5% increase in power costs across the largest U.S. grid region, with wholesale prices near some… …