Apparently "terawatt-hours per year" is a unit that people use in public policy, but it strikes me as strange. Converting 16.22 TWh/year to a "more metric" unit, that's a sustained power usage of 1.85 gigawatts.
So Bitcoin is constantly using more than enough power to make Doc Brown's eyes bug out.
So Bitcoin is constantly using more than enough power to make Doc Brown's eyes bug out.