Residents of the small town of Mountain Pine (Arkansas, USA) are disappointed by the constant noise from the mining facility, audible for miles.
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The Bitcoin mining operation located near the town center and residential areas began operating a few months ago.
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\”It’s damn loud. All you hear are piercing fans. This isn’t just annoying; we fear that as a result property values will fall,\” commented Gary Maston, whose home sits across the road from the facility.
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Some members of the community claim the entity owning the facility, GMI Computing, misled the town. The company allegedly described the facility as a data centre and hid that it was a mining operation.
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According to them, the firm promised to contribute to the local economy and create jobs, but only one of the five workers at the Bitcoin farm is local.
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However, some long-time residents disagree with the centre’s claims about acoustic pollution.
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\”This is nothing compared with what the sawmill produced. It’s really not a problem for people who lived through it,\” said Bill Brown, who has lived in Mountain Pine since the 1980s.
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But the mayor’s office, in response to a rising wave of complaints, only required GMI Computing to erect a noise barrier around the facility by the end of the year.
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From the video, the company appears to be operating several container-type AntBox units from Bitmain. The manufacturer introduced this equipment type in 2019. The AntBox T5 model, for example, houses 205 Antminer miners from the S19 series.
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Earlier this year, US Bitcoin Corp reached an agreement with the authorities of Niagara Falls, New York, to resume operations at the mining facility on the condition that a noise barrier be erected.
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In September 2022, reports said that authorities and residents of Sortland, Norway began a fight against a cryptocurrency mining operation because of acoustic pollution.