I’ve posted this before, but I have a conspiracy theory that the block chain craze was caused by energy companies, promoting a product that increases demand as clean energy started being able to take a chunk of their business. As soon as it’s starting to die down the “AI” craze happens and consumes the energy.

The reason politicians always give for not enstating bans or regulations to curb dirty energy is that we need enough supply to not have to take anything offline. If they can keep increasing the amount of energy that is consumed they never need to worry about being regulated away.