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In a historic first, the Asian giant’s electricity consumption has breached the 10 trillion kWh mark, fueled by an insatiable appetite for AI, EVs, and high-tech manufacturing.

In a historic first, the Asian giant’s electricity consumption has breached the 10 trillion kWh mark, fueled by an insatiable appetite for AI, EVs, and high-tech manufacturing.
To understand the sheer scale of China's economic engine, one only needs to look at the meter. In 2025, for the first time in human history, a single country consumed more than 10 trillion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity. The data, released by China’s National Energy Administration, paints a picture of a nation that is not just growing, but accelerating into a future powered by electrons.
To put this 10.37 trillion kWh figure into perspective, China now consumes more electricity than the United States, the European Union, Russia, India, and Japan combined. It is a staggering statistic that signals a decisive shift in the center of gravity of the global industrial economy. While the West debates de-industrialization, China is re-industrializing with a green, high-tech twist.
This surge is not coming from old smokestack industries. It is being driven by the "New Three" economy. Electricity consumption for Electric Vehicle (EV) charging and battery swapping soared by nearly 50% year-on-year. The digital economy, hungry for computing power to fuel Artificial Intelligence (AI) data centers, saw consumption in the internet services sector jump by over 30%. This is the sound of a country upgrading its operating system.
"Electricity is the blood of the modern economy," says energy analyst Li Wei. "China's blood pressure is high because it is running a marathon at sprint speed."
For Kenya, which looks East for both loans and development models, the lesson is stark: industrialization requires cheap, abundant, and reliable power. As we struggle with high costs and an aging grid, China’s grid has become the world’s largest machine. The milestone also suggests that global demand for copper, cobalt, and lithium—minerals Africa possesses—will remain sky-high to feed this electric beast. China’s hunger for power is, ultimately, an opportunity for African resources, if negotiated wisely.
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