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It doesn't take any energy to maintain a static magnetic field though.

The currents that produce the magnetic field are flowing in liquid metal with nonzero resistivity.

Earth's magnetic field isn't static, though.

Negligibly so. The Sun delivers more energy to Earth in about 5 seconds than the magnetic field loses in 1,000 years.

The magnetic field is coherent. The energy from the Sun is not.