Which is odd. Because there's so much opportunity in parts of Africa to take advantage of bitcoin's energy consumption to earn revenues.

The Great Rift Valley of East Africa has the potential for 20,000 MW of electricity generation ("volcano mining", to borrow the term used to refer to El Salvador's geothermal electric generation used for bitcoin mining). That's a "green" and "renewable" energy source -- something bitcoin miners would be ever so happy paying to develop additional geothermal steam production and electric generation capacity and to purchase the kWhs produced. By the way, that 20,000 MW potential in the Rift Valley is more than ALL bitcoin mining globally consumes today.

Ethiopia's GERD (Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam) will (eventually) be able to generate vastly more electricity than the level of demand that exists in the country (and neighboring countries as well), at least for a decade or more. That's another opportunity to take advantage of bitcoin mining as a way to offset the sunk costs from building the dam before its capacity can be used.

In West Africa, in Nigeria (and, presumably, Angola) there is an enormous amount of gas flaring (and worse, venting) from oil drilling operations. That's another area where bitcoin mining would not consume energy beyond that which is otherwise wasted (that's why it is called "waste gas", ... there's no other productive use for it, given the situation of where and why it exists).

The continent of Africa would benefit incredibly so from bitcoin mining -- just as Texas is today.