{"id":144380,"date":"2026-01-17T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144380"},"modified":"2026-01-17T11:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:00:13","slug":"chinas-ai-and-ev-boom-drives-record-power-demand-widening-energy-gap-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144380","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s AI and EV boom drives record power demand, widening energy gap with US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s total electricity consumption hit a record high of 10.4 trillion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2025, more than double that of the US, the National Energy Administration (NEA) said on Saturday.<br \/>\nThe 5 per cent jump from the previous year marked the first time in China\u2019s history that annual electricity consumption had surpassed 10 trillion kWh \u2013 the highest in the world and more than the combined total of the European Union, Russia, India and Japan, state broadcaster CCTV said, citing NEA&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/china-business\/article\/3340261\/chinas-ai-and-ev-boom-drives-record-power-demand-widening-energy-gap-us?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s total electricity consumption hit a record high of 10.4 trillion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2025, more than double that of the US, the National&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144380"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}