What “all-inclusive per kWh” actually means
Hosting is sold per kilowatt-hour because electricity is the real product. Your miner converts power into hashrate; everything else a facility does exists to keep that conversion running. Pricing per kWh means your bill scales with exactly what your machines consume, instead of a flat per-unit fee that punishes efficient hardware.
All-inclusive means the rate is the whole bill. In our case it covers:
- Electricity — metered consumption, billed at the quoted rate.
- Rack space and racking — shelving, PDUs and cabling inside the facility.
- Filtered air cooling — eight intake ducts, four exhausts and 156 Summer/Winter Air Filtration.
- Fibre-optic internet — the connection your miners use to reach your pool.
- Monitoring and security — 24/7 monitoring, two layers of access security and video surveillance, on an insured site.
- On-site attention — hands on your machines when something needs reseating, cleaning or swapping.
Two things sit outside the rate, and we would rather you know now than at invoice time. A racking fee of $35 USD/miner one time per connection or boxing out, and the cost of spare parts if a machine needs a component replaced. Labour on on-site miner repairs is usually included for hosted miners; you pay for the part.
Why hosting is quoted as a band, not a number
Our published band is $0.072–$0.089 USDT/kWh. Any provider that gives you one number before knowing your order size is either quoting their worst-case price or has not thought about it.
Three things move your rate inside the band:
- How many miners you host. Fixed costs — racking labour, network, monitoring, insurance — spread across more machines. A 200-machine order genuinely costs us less per kilowatt-hour to serve than a 5-machine order.
- Space availability when you book. Our facility has 530 miner spots. When capacity is tight, the rate reflects it. When a block of space opens up, there is more room to move.
- The hardware you bring. Efficient, current-generation air-cooled machines are easier to plan power and cooling around than a mixed fleet of older units.
Our minimum hosting order is 5 miners. Below that, the fixed cost of racking and managing an account does not work at any rate we would be willing to quote.
What one miner costs you per month
Here is the arithmetic, per machine, at both ends of our band. Power draw comes from the manufacturer’s published wall figure, and a month is counted as 30 days.
Monthly hosting cost per miner at $0.072–$0.089 USDT/kWh
| Antminer S23 | 2,416 kWh/month — $174 to $215 per miner per month |
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| Antminer S21 XP | 2,624 kWh/month — $189 to $234 per miner per month |
| Antminer S21 Pro | 2,527 kWh/month — $182 to $225 per miner per month |
| Antminer S21+ (235 TH/s) | 2,538 kWh/month — $183 to $226 per miner per month |
| Antminer S21+ (225 TH/s) | 2,430 kWh/month — $175 to $216 per miner per month |
| Antminer S21+ (216 TH/s) | 2,566 kWh/month — $185 to $228 per miner per month |
| Antminer S21 | 2,520 kWh/month — $181 to $224 per miner per month |
| WhatsMiner M60S | 2,478 kWh/month — $178 to $220 per miner per month |
| Antminer T21 | 2,599 kWh/month — $187 to $231 per miner per month |
Compare that with running the same machine at home. Residential electricity across most of North America sits well above our band once delivery charges, regulatory charges and taxes are counted — and that is before the dedicated 240 V circuit, the noise and the heat. The profitability calculator shows what the difference does to your margin.
Comparing hosting quotes without getting caught out
A low headline rate is not the same as a low bill. When you compare providers, normalise the quotes before you decide:
- Ask what is not in the rate: setup fees, cooling surcharges, network charges, management fees, insurance, minimum power commitments, exit fees.
- Ask whether the rate is fixed for the term or floats with the provider’s own power cost.
- Ask what happens when the machine is off: do you pay for reserved power you are not using?
- Ask for the deposit terms. A no-deposit option changes the amount of capital you have to commit up front.
- Ask who pays for repairs, and whether a failed machine has to be shipped away.
We have written the longer version of this as how to choose a Bitcoin miner hosting provider, including the questions that tend to produce uncomfortable answers.
For the full terms — minimum order, deposit options, racking fee, box storage, contract length and payment methods — see hosting plans and rates or the FAQ.
