Great example of terrible journalism around a novel technology. Here, let's extrapolate a trend in a completely absurd way for an attention-grabbing headline. Throw in some pictures, some irrelevant data about cryptomining in browser, now you have enough for an article.
>As of mid-May, electricity demand for bitcoin is hovering around 143 terawatt-hours, significantly outpacing electricity consumption of several countries including Argentina.
According to enerdata [2] the world produces over 30k TWH in electricity alone. So, it's not even close. It's also worth noting that there's lots of "Bitcoin uses more energy than X countries" but it's more "Bitcoin uses more energy than each of X countries individually - not cumulatively"