China August Power Use Tops 1 Trillion kWh, Load Hits Record

China's August power consumption exceeded 1 trillion kWh for the first time, with load hitting a record high. The surge is driven by heatwaves and industrial demand. For AI practitioners, this is a reminder that electricity is a hard constraint on compute—training and inference clusters only get hungrier. The post does not disclose the exact peak load figure or sector breakdown.