[Moneyyyyy]

People want to have as much BTC as possible.

Which means Bitcoin mining is a virus searching and consuming as much cheap energy as possible.

We are not at a point we're the margin is so small that we see consumption/mining shifting. We only see consumption and more consumption.

And of course this totally decentivie making the energy usable through things like high voltage DC lines or metal smelting or even making hydrogen.

[eru]

Huh? Of course, we see such shifting.

Eg it used to be profitable to mine on your PC. Those days are long past: the returns don't cover the cost of electricity. Hence a shift away from that.

See https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption for an estimate of bitcoin power usage. It's going down as well as up.