Stating compute scale in terms of power consumption is such a backwards metric to me, assuming that you're trying to portray is as something positive.

It's like selling steel by the average fractional number of mining deaths that went into producing it. Sure, at a given moment there will be some ratio between average deaths and steel, but that's a number that you want to be as low as possible.

Stating compute scale in terms of power consumption is exactly how one looks at data centers or capacity planning right now though. It's the major constraint.

It's just a different abstraction level.