I went over my power usage with a solar installer and he asked me how I was using so much power lol. He said that in all his years he hasn't seen usage as high as mine for a house smaller than twice the size of mine. I'm only idle mining on 3-4 computers.

Does Monero mining really use _that_ much more power or should I attribute it to my proclivity of keeping my house a 70°F (21.1° C)?

(Despite being having been winter here in FL, the AC stays on all year round.)

my 3900X undervolted mining on all threads is 140w at the wall

if I leave it to all it's automated stock settings it's significantly more

I probably should measure the usage for each machine. It's probably not profitable.

it helps with the heat up north :)

It's counterproductive here in FL. I never need to heat my house. I only turn on the furnace once a year to make sure that it works.

Otherwise even if it's 50° F outside it stays about 75° inside without heat running at all.

Luckily if I turn off my miners I can sell power back to the grid with net metering. Ironically because FL law requires them to pay retail rate, I'll make more money _not_ mining.

Depends on what that electricity price is

If you have very efficient ryzens and/or the electricity price is pretty low, then you will make a net profit mining

If it's pretty expensive, on the other hand, then yeah, you're better off just reselling it and buying xmr with that money

It's hard to nail down the exact rate because there's fuel and non-fuel rates and the rate is higher over a specific usage of each. I pay between 0.03 USD and 0.088 USD per kWh.

is that bottom line, all taxes?

if so that is cheap

I'm from the Pacific Northwest originally... I miss my 0.02 / kWh flat rate b/c I lived w/in 5 miles of hydro

That's including taxes.

That's the reason Google built a data center in the middle of nowhere Washington State. Because the power rates are so damn low.