Texas paid this company to mine bitcoin during an ongoing energy crisis. Meanwhile, Texans are paying 50% more in electricity costs compared to last year. [1]
[1]https://www.pcgamer.com/texas-paid-this-company-to-mine-bitc...
40% of the world’s electricity is generated from coal, and the amount is increasing.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/08/germany-reacti...
Choosing nuclear energy bears the same moronic behavior. It's unsustainable and, compared to coal, we have much less options handling it's waste on a much larger time scale. "Not beeing able to handle the waste" is the same problem category and nobody cares. This is not just short-sightedness, it's also a propagandistic master piece.
Decades of a lacking energy transition plan and now, when the situation gets more dire, the debate goes between non-solution A and non-solution B. But at least we have status quo going for _us_.
In non-percentage terms it's still rising as electricity demand rises, particularly in China.
This (non percentage) rise is forecast to peak around 2028 in China (and therefore the rest of the world) currently.