A rural Bitcoin mining farm is the new hot button topic in southeast Kansas. “It’s miserable. You know, we listen to it day in and day out when I get up in the morning over a fan and a TV, you hear a humming noise. I don’t care what they do over there. I just don’t want to hear it in my yard,” said Dereck Ranes, Home Owner Across From Facility. Ranes, who lives across the street from a Bitcoin mining facility in rural Kansas, is fed up with the noise and vibrations — making life untenable. The facility holds four shipping containers worth of computers constantly solving math equations to mine Bitcoin, powered by an industrial-sized generator, which runs off natural gas. It emits up to 80 decibels of sound constantly, and a low-frequency hum which can be felt in the surrounding areas. Ranes took his concerns to the Bourbon County Commissioners Tuesday night, who voted to put a moratorium on any expansion of the Bitcoin farm until a compromise can be found. “I’m trying to make sure that we have due process for both sides, that we’re hearing both sides. And I hear what my constituents are saying and I want to help them. And we we did help them with the moratorium, but we still need to listen to the other side, which they’re they’re due to be here next week,” said Samuel Tran, Bourbon County Commissioner.
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