Beijing’s English-language outlets and China-linked accounts are pushing one story to U.S. audiences: AI data centers are driving up power bills, straining the grid, and enriching tech companies at ordinary people’s expense. At home, the Chinese state subsidizes power for its own AI data centers and races to build more. That split is the tell. A large U.S. data center complex. Facilities like these have become the focus of both local opposition and Chinese state media coverag