The crypto industry financed a 2.3% expansion of the US's power generating capacity.
I don't care what we're spending energy on. Being stingy about it just makes all of us poorer. There's a quadrillion-cubic-kilometer flaming ball of plasma in the sky. We have the ability to generate literally infinite electricity; and quite literally the only way we get to that is by increasing the amount of electricity we're using, and thus need to generate.
Everything gets cheaper when electricity gets cheaper.
I don't care what we're spending energy on. Being stingy about it just makes all of us poorer. There's a quadrillion-cubic-kilometer flaming ball of plasma in the sky. We have the ability to generate literally infinite electricity; and quite literally the only way we get to that is by increasing the amount of electricity we're using, and thus need to generate.
Everything gets cheaper when electricity gets cheaper.