Youtube provides entertainment for literally billions of people
Bitcoin provides... idk a way for some people to make a lot of money and some others to lose it?...
Even if we say that BTC provides some value by transferring money etc. the amount of value per Watt is so slanted its ridiculous to even make that argument.
Bitcoin is an independent financial network. It opens up economic access to literally billions of people currently shut out of the traditional financial system. I'd say that's quite valuable to the human race.
Because entertainment is so useful? What's your utility function to decide which one is more worthy of using electricity? Why should we use your utility function in particular?
The first source does not seem particularly reliable, it makes some back of the envelope calculations based on extrapolated stats that are not even sourced.
Other sources put Google’s total energy usage (including youtube) at around 12 TWh [1]. Total datacenter usage is estimated to be around 205 TWh [2].
Bitcoin provides... idk a way for some people to make a lot of money and some others to lose it?...
Even if we say that BTC provides some value by transferring money etc. the amount of value per Watt is so slanted its ridiculous to even make that argument.