
Simple solution.
Make mining crypo against the law, and shut down all of big tech, and the government's cloud processing data centers. I don't really care for them scooping up metadata and using predictive analytics on everyone anyway. And? Since both of those technologies are so energy intensive, the STATE should PROVE how many "terrorists," or crimes per year they are solving by sweeping up every last citizens' data, rather than a targeted approach.
I agree with Corey Morningstar on this issue.
Smart devices and their attendant technologies, are a bigger contributor to energy use and so called, "green house gases," than even internal combustion engines. They are a bigger drag on energy consumption.
Now, naturally the global ruling elites don't want you to know this, because this tech is used to track, trace, and profile every bit of information about you.

This is the KEY, to the UN, the WHO, and the WEF's "forth industrial revolution."
So if you don't need it? It would be like buying a car, or wrapping your house in plastic if you don't need to.
The Great Reset: The Final Assault on the Living Planet [It’s Not a Social Dilemma – It’s the Calculated Destruction of the Social, Part III]
Wrong Kind of Green Nov 28, 2020 Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Social Engineering, United Nations, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
November 28, 2020
By Cory Morningstar
Part three. This is the final segment of a three-part investigative series. [Part 1] [Part 2]
"Social license is being harvested to reset the capitalist system – under the guise of a climate emergency and saving the planet. This we know: the planet will not be saved by those that have destroyed it."
www.wrongkindofgreen.org
"Artificial Intelligence (AI) is described as, “systems that combine sophisticated hardware and software with elaborate databases and knowledge-based processing models to demonstrate characteristics of effective human decision making.” [Source] The World Economic Forum recognizes AI as “the engine of the Fourth Industrial Revolution”. [Source] AI as applied/ utilized by social media platforms is trained with an objective and exploitative function: target users with ads for maximum ad revenue, by highlighting the newsfeed ensuring users remain on the platform for as many hours, minutes and seconds as possible. This function is highlighted by The Social Dilemma, while, ultimately, the sole function of every corporation, that of increasing revenues and maximizing profits – ad infinitum, is kept opaque.
Any technology that has power can be corrupted. In this respect, AI is perhaps the most dangerous. Hacking (PC, mobiles, viruses) is accomplished by injecting code – code that can be then detected. Deep learning, referred to as artificial intelligence, is a giant array of numbers. The AI models are self-modifying on a continuous basis, thus, it is unknown how hacking AI can – or will – be aptly detected. [Source: October 5, 2018, The Artificial Intelligence Race and the New World, Order, Council on Foreign Relations – The Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Lecture on Science and Technology]. “Imagine tens of millions of numbers in the deep learning algorithm that’s updating itself anyway, because it’s getting more data, retraining itself. Some bad people just tweak a few numbers and all of a sudden, it might be out of control.” [Source] Meaning, for example, a hacker may succeed in turning autonomous vehicles into autonomous weapons that kill people en masse. Imagine fully autonomous nuclear weapons or autonomous nuclear power plants, the hacking of which – or malfunction of – could result in the annihilation of an entire nation, or the entire planet.
Here again, it is more important what both The Social Dilemma and the Center for Humane Technology do not divulge, rather than what they do. The Fourth Industrial Revolution cannot come into fruition without the 5G infrastructure that will run the Internet of Things. “Smart” cities must be understood within the context of global policing and the military industrial complex. Cybersecurity will be the battle space of the 21st century.. . . "
She recommends not having a smart device if you don't need one.
IOW? The 5G internet of things, is what is really at the heart of using all this energy. AI powered reality, uses a gargantuan amount of energy. Since they implemented this new scheme in 2020, the amount that has been needed has jumped exponentially from what we used when it was just a 4G reality.
It was a bad idea, combined with decreasing reliability on both production and transmission of energy? Things aren't looking so good.