Kortex · demand signals · counted, never forecast

BETAevidence: source-reported → transformed · country grain

Where the demand is coming from

Electricity demand growth has ingredients you can count: people arriving, buildings standing, vehicles electrifying, datacentres landing; under a financing backdrop that decides what gets built. Kortex holds all of them as counted series (1.41B building footprints, World Bank population counts, IEA/OWID EV adoption, PeeringDB facilities, 9,122 FRED series) and joins them here per country. These are histories, not forecasts; the trajectory is yours to judge.

Transport electrification vs demand base

x = EV share of new car sales (latest year, IEA/OWID) · y = population growth since 2000 (World Bank WDI, latest year) · bubble = building stock (Microsoft footprints; missing = thin ring) · click column headers below to re-sort the table

The signals, per country ↓ CSV

sorted by EV sales share · nulls shown as; (absence, never zero)

country	EV sales %	Δ 5y (pp)	population	pop Δ since 2000	buildings	datacentres

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Method & receipt. Country grain, v2. EV adoption = IEA Global EV Outlook via Our World in Data (CC BY, both cited); latest published year per country, 5-year delta where the prior year exists. Population = World Bank WDI counts (SP.POP.TOTL, latest published year per country; growth vs 2000). v1 rolled GHS-POP zone polygons up to country and clipped coastal settlement (Norway summed 17% low); country grain now uses source-reported counts, and the raster stays at zone grain on the siting screen, where it belongs (cross-checked against WorldPop 2020, median ratio 0.911). Buildings = Microsoft Building Footprints density grid (name-crosswalk joins; a few countries missing, shown as absent). Datacentres = PeeringDB + curated hyperscalers, facility counts not capacity. Rates context = FRED latest observations (US 10Y, 2s10s slope, Baa-10Y spread); the global financing backdrop, deliberately not per-country. Air-conditioning penetration is a declared gap (no cleanly licensed open series yet). Nothing on this page is a forecast. GET /v2/spatial/demand-signals · sources · coverage.