Yes it for sure is as I did ground it. Then cranked car and when it hit ign in key switch bam!! Fuse gone!
Good thing is that when I disconnected it and cranked car over no issues then.
The wire is about 2-3 feet long so I must have snipped either in passenger side of car or in fender well in driver side and that wire could have gone under rad to other side of car. Point is wherever I cut from, that wire was teed or tapped into something away from steering column.