Trump said people who claim AI will destroy the world and who oppose data-center construction are the same people who previously warned about climate change and are trying to impede AI development.

China National Bureau of Statistics: among 626 major industrial products, 286 posted YoY output growth in August. New-energy vehicle output was 1.647 mln units, up 21.9% YoY; total auto output 2.697 mln units, down 2.7% YoY. Steel 114.75 mln tonnes, -5.5% YoY; cement 129.08 mln tonnes, -11.7% YoY; ten non-ferrous metals 7.10 mln tonnes, +1.6% YoY; ethylene 3.60 mln tonnes, +3.6% YoY. Power generation 943.8 bln kWh, -0.8% YoY; crude oil processing 59.07 mln tonnes, -6.9% YoY.

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and National Development and Reform Commission issued a joint electronic information manufacturing plan calling for accelerated development of advanced storage technologies and compute infrastructure. Policy directs promotion of storage‑centric computing and compute‑by‑storage, upgrades to distributed and hyperconverged storage, and the establishment of tiered data‑storage architectures and protocols. It targets breakthroughs in intelligent tiered storage, data sparsification, key‑value caching and the R&D of high‑bandwidth flash, high‑bandwidth memory (HBM), ferroelectric, resistive (ReRAM) and magnetoelectric memories. On facilities and applications, the plan backs hyperscale intelligent‑compute architecture to support AI clusters at the scale of hundreds of thousands of accelerator cards, a full‑chain buildout of space‑based computing with deeper compute‑power co‑design, strengthened distributed edge computing architectures, higher‑performance compilers/databases/middleware, and work on domain‑specific accelerators and large‑scale parallel compute bottlenecks to lift Z‑class supercomputer performance.