I understand you can mine to decentralize hash, to help secure the network, but also, many people also mine to make more sats. While the ongoing energy costs are 0 sats, the costs to build the setup costs sats. You could justify it by “to help the network”, use sovereign energy, or be being more economical after X months at 0 sats/kWh, or positive sats from mining rewards after X months.
I’m not trying to be a dick or downer, I just like to run the numbers and see how things pencil out.
The setup it dope even if it can’t pencil out under current conditions. Cheers 🍻