I can't help but wonder where from..
You have to remember that you are not seeing the average... only peaks...
If many peak in harmony, you see something like that. Just as the low, is many of us in a sour-spot. (Could be that we lost connections with a farm, got a lot of errors, just got lucky, or the day just got cooler.) In addition to machines added to the network, and other machines being pulled-off the network.
https://blockchain.info/charts/ <-- Logarithmic Scale, with 7-day roling avg, 1-year
(Growth is actually slowing-down. Technology-limit and lack of new farms.)
Also, miners hop onto other coins that are better value than BTC to mine, and come back when BTC is a better value to mine.
There are a lot of factors. You need to focus on the 3-day to 7-day rolling avg, or the log-charts.
But yes, 20PHs is a lot to add to a network, but that is only 20,000THs at most... 10,000THs + harmonic-peaks.
Split among the orders... (Includes China-MFG and ScryptASIC which does sha256 also)
0.1THs (6x MFG) ~6.0THs (10x Production, ant-usb-farms, old-BFLs, misc.)
0.2THs (6x MFG) ~1.2THs
1.2THs (5x MFG) ~6.0THs
2.4THs (3x MFG) ~7.2THs
3.0THs (1x MFG) ~3.0THs
3.6THs (1x MFG) ~3.6THs
TOTAL HASHING ~ 27THs * 50-units/day * 15-days = 20.5PHs
(50 units seems to be about the avg claim. 15 days is just how long they have had to build and test, before shipping. Since claims have been rolling in. Both I believe modest estimates. 7-days if it comforts you, with the harmony-theory.)
A place MFG 100 a day, could only test 50 for half as long... I would assume, unless they have some crazy power setup. (Seeing as most power is used for MFG. Not to mention the electric bill. Though that would be 10%-50% of consumer prices for electricity. Monthly dumps anyone? lol.)
China, I am sure, is using robots to assemble 1,000+ a day...
I believe this may be the last few years for "consumer mining", to be profitable, on any level. Unless they come-up with a 1.0 PHs miner that runs off 400Watts next year, for under $2500. Then limit that to only one miner per person. (Looking at the difficulty.)
Though, I don't see many farms opening up anymore. Diff is slowing-down, no matter which way you slice it. At this technology limit. Now it is a matter of volume, and few are buying that volume, at that price, for that little return.
Best we can hope for is farm failure, as all the hardware starts to break-down and die from overclocking.
Even with $6,000/BTC to $24,000/BTC, this is a tight earning.