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    Global Electricity Generation Trends [OC]
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    Global Electricity Generation Trends [OC]


    Visualization by OptiGnos, a free public service app I built with Python and React.
    Data Source: Ember (2025); Energy Institute – Statistical Review of World Energy (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data

    "America should be adding about 80 gigawatts of new power generation capacity a year to keep pace with AI as well as cloud computing, crypto, industrial demand and electrification trends, according to consulting and technology firm ICF. It’s currently building less than 65 gigawatts. That gap alone is enough electricity to power two Manhattans during the hottest parts of summer." — WSJ, Oct 15, 2025, "AI Data Centers, Desperate for Electricity, Are Building Their Own Power Plants", by Jennifer Hiller

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    1. Desdam0na on

      Edit:  Germany imported over 60 percent of its power in 2021, and this graph shows production, not consumption.  It seems deeply misleading.

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      Would be interested to see this normalized to KWh per capita.

      Of course the US uses more electricity than Germany, we have many times the population.

      Of course China uses more electricity than the US, it has many times the population.

      Of course China’s electricity demands are increasing, they are electrifying and industrializing many decades after the US and Germany did.