Bitcoin is designed to be inefficient: the network adjusts to use more power as it becomes available. None of the other things you mentioned have that mechanism

Bitcoin is designed to be inefficient: the network adjusts to use more power as it becomes available. None of the other things you mentioned have that mechanism where greater usage makes them need more power for everyone who was already there. The closest you might come is something like road traffic where the situation gets asymptomatically worse as more people start driving, but even that is much better than Bitcoin because people aren’t just driving because they can and will reduce their driving when traffic is unpleasant. Bitcoin is somewhat uniquely poorly-architected in a way which deters adoption but has also become a quasi-religious point preventing the design from being fixed.