Bitcoin mining farm in eastern UP prompts school to pause expansion
www.michiganpublic.org
A school in the eastern UP is holding off on an expansion project to build two new classrooms and welcome 40 new students because of noise pollution from a nearby bitcoin mining farm. Residents are calling for the facility to shut up or shut down and move.
  • rhythmisaprancer@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    5 days ago

    This makes me think about simcity and how the issues with residential, commercial, and industrial squares would cause problems. Except here they can’t just select the bulldozer. I don’t know how to classify a bitcoin mining farm (agricultural 🤔 ) but it seems different than a school, which also is ambiguous (to me).

      • rhythmisaprancer@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        15 hours ago

        Heavy industrial sounds right. I worked at a place as a mechanic that was zoned that way, but in an otherwise residential zone, and the owner was very cautious about being a butt after hours. Their opinion was that just because we could didn’t mean we should. Unlike this bitcoin deal.