It is essentially recognizing goods and services fundamentally as energy, which they are. Warren Buffett has called cash "claim checks" on production, but cash loses value over time, bitcoin doesn't.

Bitcoin having a fixed supply and thus likely to be deflationary, it is a superior store of energy (value) than fiat currencies and many other assets.

Remote energy sources and mine bitcoin to store that value that otherwise is impractical to harvest and transmit/transport. It would instead spend the bitcoin (theoretically with out value loss) in a high demand area, essentially subsidizing that area.