{"id":1031260,"date":"2026-08-26T10:06:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031260"},"modified":"2026-08-26T12:53:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T07:23:42","slug":"chinas-data-centre-power-demand-to-quadruple-to-774-twh-by-2030-amid-ai-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/26\/chinas-data-centre-power-demand-to-quadruple-to-774-twh-by-2030-amid-ai-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s data centre power demand to quadruple to 774 TWh by 2030 amid AI boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], August 25 (ANI): China&#8217;s data centre electricity consumption is projected to quadruple to 774 terawatt-hours (TWh) by 2030 as rapid growth in artificial intelligence workloads drives a structural rise in computing-related power demand, according to a release by Wood Mackenzie. <\/p>\n<p>The research firm said data centres could account for 6 per cent of China&#8217;s total electricity consumption by 2030, up from current levels, with their share potentially rising to 17 per cent by 2060.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], August 25 (ANI): China&#8217;s data centre electricity consumption is projected to quadruple to 774 terawatt-hours (TWh) by 2030 as rapid growth in artificial intelligence workloads drives a structural rise in computing-related power demand, according to a release by Wood Mackenzie. The research firm said data centres could account for 6 per cent of China&#8217;s total electricity consumption by 2030, up from current levels, with their share potentially rising to 17 per cent by 2060.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031278,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031260\/revisions\/1031278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}