People living in the area say the plant owned by Marathon Digital Holdings produces jet engine-like noise around the clock.
People living in the area say the plant owned by Marathon Digital Holdings produces jet engine-like noise around the clock
“It sounds like you’re being on a runway with jets taking off 24/7, nonstop,” Shadden said. “You hear it in your home, it penetrates the walls, it shakes your windows.”The sound is coming from a Bitcoin mining plant run by Las Vegas-based Marathon Digital Holdings. This data center is a network of computers that run strings of numbers 24/7 to uncover cryptocurrency.“Almost all of us here have headaches, hearing loss, vertigo, nausea, sleep disturbances,” Shadden said.
“They’re extraordinarily exploitative. They come to places like rural Texas where it’s almost no holds barred,” said Jackie Sawicky, founder of the Texas Coalition Against Cryptomining.
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