"Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin"
This news won't resonate because 2% feels like such a small number but it is in fact an insane amount of energy: "that's roughly the equivalent of having added an additional state to the grid over just the last three years." https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/over-2-percent-of-the-uss-electricity-generation-now-goes-to-bitcoin/