Right now a 1 TH/s, .6 J/GH machine looks like this:
Income @ $410/btc: $180/mo
Expense @ $.10/kwh: $43/mo
There's still significant profit potential at the current conditions.
Yeah but from the asic companies view point it is a tight margin if they want to make another 20 or 30ph data center.
Just think what happens if coins drop to 300 or 280 usd. For now restriction of production new data centers while mining your current data center in theory would drive the price of btc up. They could only sell some to miners at high prices
( s-3's and s4's both high prices) also (sp20's and sp35's)
BTW asicminer is selling long tubes (low price) but they are late to ship. So it sounds to me like these builders have conference calls.
Then stop building data centers for 30 to 60 days. Hoping coins move to 500 usd or more.
Please Remember this is the speculation section so guessing about shit and making up scenarios is fun to do.