Texas (ERCOT), United States: industrial power price and what 1 kW earns
Texas is the biggest Bitcoin mining state in the US. The EIA publishes the average price industrial customers actually paid, state by state, every month.
The price
- Average industrial price, July 2026: $0.0707/kWh
This is a statewide average across all industrial users. Large miners often sign their own contracts and sell flexibility back to ERCOT, so their all-in cost can be lower (see the Riot example in the methodology).
What 1 kW earns at this price
At the first price above, GPU rental nets more per kW: -$0.16 a day mining vs $16.72 renting GPUs, after power and hardware.
At $0.0707/kWh
| Per kW per day | Mining (S21 XP) | GPU rent (H100) |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $2.51 | $40.67 |
| Power | -$1.70 | -$1.68 |
| Hardware (amortized) | -$0.97 | -$22.27 |
| Net | -$0.16 | $16.72 |
Open the calculator at $0.0707/kWh
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
- EIA Electric Power Monthly, Table 5.6.A: Texas, industrial sector, July 2026: 7.07 cents/kWh (July 2025: 6.61). Accessed October 21, 2026.
Other places: Paraguay · Ethiopia · UAE · Canada (Quebec), or see all power prices. Per-model numbers are on the ASIC pages.