Residents of a sleepy Pennsylvania town are demanding to know why they are being kept awake by a local mine when the only thing being produced are Bitcoins.
The Terawulf facility in Salem Township is the first Bitcoin mine in the country to run solely on nuclear power, generated by the nearby Susquehanna plant.
But vast amounts of electricity are needed to run computers that create the crypto-currency and the noise generated has driven some neighbors to despair.
‘The gentleman that’s house is the last house on Confers Lane, you could literally go inside his house, put your hand on the wall, and feel the vibration from the fans. it was that bad,’ said Ernest Ashbridge III, vice president of Salem Township board of supervisors.
On Tuesday fed-up residents told the power boss they had endured enough of the endless noise.
That’s very odd, the nuclear power stations I worked on as a construction electrician have cooling towers that look identical to the ones shown at this bitcoin mining facility, however they didn’t use fans. They relied on the natural draft created by their huge size, height, and shape of the towers. The only noise that could be heard was the cooling water flowing through the lower portion of the cooling towers.