Me neither. If I was running over 100KW service the rates would be about 6.5 cents and I thought that was pretty good for Missouri. Reckon he's up by the nuclear plant and probably government-subsidized to see numbers like that.
I've done a lot of research on global electrical rates and I believe he's mistaken. It does appear Missouri has pretty good industrial rates, and some tax incentives, but I couldn't find a rate in Mo under 4.5 cents/kwh USD, which given the strong American dollar, isn't attractive enough to build a large project.
But there's always a chance he found the loop hole. Either:
1) I've seen a few examples of "off the grid" private solutions where they find power, always seems to be a small to medium dam (sub 5MW), that was built to service a lumber mill, mine or other remote industrial facility. Except HaoBTC, who found a dam that was built for no good reason.
2) That, or, he found some crazy county that is selling power at a massive loss.
3) He's working in some sort of low cost government loan/grant into this and doesn't actually mean his bill from the power company will be 0.202/kWh.
He said "Missouri just past some tax incentives for datacenters coming here or expanding and our industrial rate for DCs would be around $.0202/kWh."
I found the bill with the tax incentives (passed and signed in April 2015). It exempts data centres from paying tax on electricity, but I didn't see any language in there that lowered rates. (Plus, from what I can tell as an outsider, it appears Missouri's electrical rates are not controlled by the state legislature.)
If anyone solves this mystery, let me know.
I just don't see it at that level. Surrounding areas just make me suspect it's a possible someone read something wrong.
I really hope I'm wrong and OP shows us where and how you can get this level. But I just think final number will be around 3x or so what he said.
