We might actually discover other civilizations by extending our first wormholes to the black hole at the center of our galaxy - only to find that the polar jets have already been staked out by a dozen or more other species - not that there would be any risk of overcrowding at the black hole energy well. Black hole polar jets might be able to accommodate an almost limitless number of energy-tapping wormholes. And if not, you could just invest enough energy to loop a wormhole through a big enough arc in spacetime to intercept the polar jet at a sufficiently distant point in the past before anyone else's wormholes hog the particle stream.
Chew on that.
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Well, there's an article in the current Scientific American re how physicists have created "mini Big Bangs" by colliding gold nuclei at near light speeds. Wormholes in the lab may not be all that far fetched.