Bitcoin, Energy, and AI

With all the AI hype and these massive data centers being built everywhere, i keep wondering if someone’s eventually gonna figure out how to stack Bitcoin's power demand with AI. the proposed Utah Stratos data center they're talking about is supposed to be 9GW yet right now the entire global bitcoin network sits around 20GW which just made me think: right now, bitcoin mining is basically just a treadmill. it’s a crazy amount of energy spent chasing a random number, which is only useful for securing the network (still valid ofc, but still.