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I guess the author runs it at high load for long times, not only for the benchmarks to write this blog post. And less than 10 kWh is a low starting point, many households would be much higher.

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That vastly depends where you live and what you use electricity for. Most of Europe for example uses much less energy [1], although that will probably change as heat pumps are becoming more and more widespread.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_countries_by_electric...

I think this is just consumption divided by population, so very easily influenced by e.g. having little population and many data centers: I doubt the average person in Iceland is spending 10k+ bucks on electricity annually.

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