Paraguay: industrial power price and what 1 kW earns

Paraguay sells surplus hydro from the Itaipu dam to heavy industrial users, Bitcoin miners included, through the state utility ANDE.

The price

All-in industrial, low end: $0.0400/kWh
All-in industrial, high end: $0.0500/kWh

The range depends on how fully you use the contracted demand. Running flat out puts you near the low end.

What 1 kW earns at this price

At the first price above, GPU rental nets more per kW: $0.58 a day mining vs $17.45 renting GPUs, after power and hardware.

At $0.0400/kWh: low end

Per kW per day	Mining (S21 XP)	GPU rent (H100)
Revenue	$2.51	$40.67
Power	-$0.96	-$0.95
Hardware (amortized)	-$0.97	-$22.27
Net	$0.58	$17.45

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At $0.0500/kWh: high end

Per kW per day	Mining (S21 XP)	GPU rent (H100)
Revenue	$2.51	$40.67
Power	-$1.20	-$1.19
Hardware (amortized)	-$0.97	-$22.27
Net	$0.34	$17.22

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Per 1 kW of facility power, using the mine vs AI calculator's default inputs: Antminer S21 XP efficiency (13.5 J/TH) at $15.81/TH, 2% pool fee, 3-year ASIC life; H100 GPUs at 1000 W, $2.69/GPU-hour, 70% utilization, $36,125 per GPU over 4 years; PUE 1.1. Hardware and rental figures are sourced in the methodology. Worked out at 100 kW and divided by 100, because GPUs come in whole units. No taxes or hosting fees. Hashprice $0.0381 per TH/s per day, computed October 21, 2026 at 20:50 UTC from the mempool.space API: BTC $84,647, difficulty 140.58 T, average reward 3.1420 BTC per block over the last 144 blocks.

Sources

Hashrate Index, The State of Bitcoin Mining in Latin America 2026: ANDE's intensive industrial tariff (GCIE, 220 kV) is $5.27/kW-month demand plus $0.03725/kWh energy, which Hashrate Index puts at roughly $0.040 to $0.050/kWh all-in at high utilization. Published October 2026, accessed October 21, 2026.

Other places: Texas (ERCOT) · Ethiopia · UAE · Canada (Quebec), or see all power prices. Per-model numbers are on the ASIC pages.