Seems right, unfortunately.

A huge portion of US GDP is from financial, consultancy, legal services, movies, music, books, etc etc… not actual physical things. If it where me I would remove all of these from GDP 🤣

Shocking? Sort of

Yeah, but there is no source. Just a photo. How about all the new data centers and Bitcoin miners. Are we just more efficient? Maybe less power in the office building and working from home where the same power was run. How about all the electric cars. I smell a rat. Where is the source?

They have 4x the population we do, and are industrializing and manufacturing. They only produce 2.5x the electricity. Let me know where they are in 25 years

Are you serious? That's from "our world in data" as it says literally in the screenshot. Took me 5 seconds to find.

Our World in Data

Electricity generation

An interactive visualization from Our World in Data.

Thank you for the source. Here's one flag: "Notes on our processing step for this indicator We rely on Ember as the primary source of electricity data. While the Energy Institute (EI) provides primary energy (not just electricity) consumption data and it provides a longer time-series (dating back to 1965) than Ember (which only dates back to 1990), EI does not provide data for all countries or for all sources of electricity (for example, only Ember provides data on electricity from bioenergy). So, where data from Ember is available for a given country and year, we rely on it as the primary source. We then supplement this with data from EI where data from Ember is not available." Like climate change the data is no more than 60 years old! The UN is another flag. I don't trust it. The United States has many different electric companies and co-ops. I find it hard to believe that even our department of energy fully understands the grid that is not a homogenous system. I don't disagree that GDP is garbage but the power statistics are not a reflection of productivity. We are using power every day, we don't have black outs. We do have more LED lights. We also have a lot of traffic cameras, signs and other things powered by batteries and solar. We have solar panels on people's homes, more efficient televisions, computers, light bulbs, cars, And still when you go by military bases at night powered by independent trash power and steam plants the lights are on in every building. I say it's no good, nonsense.

And one more thing. Power plants run regardless of use. They don't cut on and off per hourly demand. They run on anticipated demand. A shutdown is an overhaul operation. Whether you use the power or not the plant runs based on the anticipated and not actual demand. Texas for example has had fewer brown and blackouts since 2020 due to load balancing of Bitcoin data centers that can shut down and reroute power and have increased the demand for power which has put better sub stations in areas that needed them. The government run power plants are not included for reasons of national security data so there is that, too. The assumption is that the bases are using the civilian grid and they are but they also use their own plants. We have one in my city that burns our trash, makes potash and powers a base that is 400 years old. If I'm wrong I would be very surprised and I'll admit it.