I'm always suspicious about these pieces talking about how much energy crypto, or AI, or anything else use. How would you ever go about finding an accurate numb

I'm always suspicious about these pieces talking about how much energy crypto, or AI, or anything else use. How would you ever go about finding an accurate number for how much power is consumed for some specific use case of all computers in the world? It's mostly just guessing, and you can pump the numbers up however you want - include the energy used in the production of the servers, moving them around, recycling them after, the travel of the employees who work on it. And then that's used to paint those technologies as morally wrong. You can do a similar article about anything. Why not video games? They use tons of power, and nobody actually needs them. Or accounting software, or art. The fact is that energy expenditure and technological adoption will keep increasing. We should be focusing on generating the energy we use more sustainably, rather than trying to make people spend all day deciding which personal choice to make to minimise the amount of energy they use.