Well, one used maybe tens or hundreds of megawatt hours over the course of a year, while the other uses tens or hundreds of terawatt hours per year.
One was a launching platform for dozens of scientific and other large scale volunteer computing projects, and the other's value is entirely based in speculation.
That's like "Oh our best & brightest sunk years and billions into a known-bad type of Alzheimers research? Wait till you hear about Pets.com"