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I think those are intentionally misleading numbers. The UK is a finance power house, not a manufacturing one, so of course it derives a larger share of GDP from less energy.

Italy has a higher % of GDP from manufacturing but way more expensive energy.

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Germany and the Netherlands bled off more than half of London's finance industry since Brexit if you look at recent numbers. They still have a finance industry but powerhouse might be a stretch these days.

UK has 10% of the entire world's digital exports: https://www.voronoiapp.com/technology/The-Worlds-Largest-Dig...

Perhaps, but e.g. LSEG had 8B in revenue last year and Euronext had less than 2B.

I'd be interested to know about specific numbers you're thinking of, if you can share a link or two.

I suspect they are confusing "total market capitalization of companies on stock exchange" with "financial industry".

Hmm, I could see the case for energy use per unit of GDP being misleading in some ways. But per capita electricity generation? That’s not related at all.

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