A close friend of mine is an import/export broker. He just completed a large shipment of bitcoin miners from Singapore. He assumes that his customer plans to use them himself because they were all headed to Eastern Washington where electrical power is the cheaper than anywhere else in the country.
We had a guy on a forum I’m on who was an early miner. He was up in Montreal, under Hydro Quebec, and similarly had really good electric rates for his mining rigs.