By The Numbers - part the thirty sixth

crypto:

Cryptocurrency has an energy consumption problem. Bitcoin alone is estimated to consume 127 terawatt-hours (TWh) a year — more than many countries, including Norway.

AI:

These 1.5 million servers, running at full capacity, would consume at least 85.4 terawatt-hours of electricity annually—more than what many small countries use in a year, according to the new assessment.

Back in the beginning of the USofA (call it circa 1800), most Americans were subsistence farmers. Don't take much resources or education to walk behind a mule and breed kids. Mike Johnson wants us to do that.