Energy prices aren't really a factor in high end gaming CPUs. It's $409 for the CPU alone but a game which maxes a single core out played 8 hours a day for 1 year is ~$30 to the average American for power to CPU+Motherboard+RAM
so even if the alternative were $0 of power it's not really a factor https://www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-core-i7-12700k-alde....
I mean yeah if you're on a budget and plan to sit there with a ~230 watt all core AVX stress test benchmark running 24/7/365 for a couple of years it might matter but in that case you're probably not looking for the fastest high frequency gaming CPU in the first place. Or you're building a custom laptop and would like a long lasting battery, sure bad idea to stick a desktop gaming CPU in. Same when it comes to picking a CPU for the cheap family computer that needs to cost in total what this CPU alone does.
I mean yeah if you're on a budget and plan to sit there with a ~230 watt all core AVX stress test benchmark running 24/7/365 for a couple of years it might matter but in that case you're probably not looking for the fastest high frequency gaming CPU in the first place. Or you're building a custom laptop and would like a long lasting battery, sure bad idea to stick a desktop gaming CPU in. Same when it comes to picking a CPU for the cheap family computer that needs to cost in total what this CPU alone does.