“Judge Reed O’Connor rejected MARA Holdings’ request in the federal Northern District of Texas for a temporary restraining order on an election for Mitchell Bend to incorporate as Texas’ newest city and regulate the company’s nearby Bitcoin mine… The Bitcoin mine, which MARA has owned for almost two years, has been a source of noise pollution that residents say has been the cause of a range of health issues including lack of sleep, vertigo, nausea and motion sickness.”
This sounds like they’re mining the bitcoin from the ground. This is just a datacenter churning pointless calculations for no real value, right? It’s not a mine. And if it produces noise, they’re doing it wrong.
Ever been in a data center? I started wearing full ear cover headphones to block the noise.
It’s a Noise Mine. They use machines to extract noise from the bowels of the earth.
I expect it’s a fossil fuel power plant making the noise.
Thousands of fans will produce a lot of noice you cant always hear. That noise you can’t hear will still damage your ears and affect you. A lot of these bitcoin mine data centres are just a shipping container or 2 with servers and minimal or no noise dampening.