The answer to your question is simply Halvings, every four year the quantity of energy used halves in bitcoin terms but the infrastructure remain and can be repurposed to more profitable uses.
Interesting how so many of their benchmarks are based on the number of 8k stream they can playback or edit at once but OSX doesn't support outputting to 8K resolution. Most likely crippled until Apple come up with their own 8K monitors.
At least 3 times in the last week I've noticed that trying to search for information that is not the government narrative about covid vaccine leads to the crappiest piece of garbage having an attempt at discrediting whatever I'm searching on.
Google / YouTube suggestion engine is now evil and corrupt to the bone.