Many residents of the town of Texas southwest of Dallas face health issues that are allegedly linked to certain noise, so there appears to be nothing to say about the crypto mining facility run by Mala Holdings.
In a video released Thursday by the more perfect union of nonprofit advocacy groups, reporter Dan Lieberman spoke with a resident of Granbury, Texas. Many long-term residents and retirees describe life as “hell” under the near-constant noise of mining work in an unorganized area of Hood County.
“It never goes away, the headache never goes away,” said one older camera resident.
Marla Mining Operation near Granbury, Texas. sauce: A more perfect union
Mining work near some of the areas outside Granbury first broke the ground in 2022, when it filed for bankruptcy later that year. Mara acquired the facility in January 2024.
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“This is a different type of noise pollution,” says Mandy Deroche, assistant management lawyer for the nonprofit environmental law group Earthjustice. “It’s not like truck traffic or anything like this. It’s a special noise, the low-frequency noise that comes from these operations, and it’s constant.”
A group of residents who faced noise for months in October 2024 and had been suing Marathon Digital for years, alleged that some residents suffered from “sensory, emotional, psychological and health effects” from BTC mining noise.
According to a more complete union interview, residents claimed the situation was responsible for hospitalization, “constant headaches,” and perhaps the death of the horse.
Cointelegraph contacted Mara and Earthjustice for comment, but neither company responded at the time of publication.
On Wednesday, Mara reported plans to provide convertible senior notes worth up to $1 billion. Some of this will be allocated to BTC purchases. The company reportedly owns 50,000 BTC, worth around $6 billion at the time of publication.
Will crypto mining affect future US elections?
A few months before Texas residents filed a lawsuit against Mara, many crypto mining executives met then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. The meeting appears to have helped Trump publicly embrace and promote BTC mining, and later included them in the campaign promises in his speech at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville.
“As for Bitcoin, yes,” said a Granbury resident when asked if he regrets voting for Trump in 2024.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3qg8zkppc4
Republican-led Congress under Trump has not passed any specific laws related to Bitcoin mining, but last week moved on three bills to address stability, central bank digital currency and digital asset market structure.
The president also signed an executive order in March to establish a national crypto and BTC stockpile in the United States.
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