How one rural Tennessee town pushed back over a proposed bitcoin mine and won

Mountain City Tables Discussion Of Rezoning To Allow For Bitcoin Mine Construction

Image Credit: Canva The Tennessee Conservative Staff – The Mountain City Mayor and Board of Aldermen decided not to consider property rezoning that would have made way for the construction of a Bitcoin mine. During their Tuesday meeting, no motion was made for approval of a second and final reading of the ordinance. The measure would have changed the zoning of a property off of Highway 421. This change would have allowed Bitcoin miner CleanSpark…

How one rural Tennessee town pushed back over a proposed bitcoin mine and won

The Mountain City Board of Mayor and Aldermen hear from locals at a town hall meeting on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025. In a packed room of 50, 11 residents voiced their concerns that plans to build a 30 megawatt bitcoin mine in a residential part of Mountain City were being rushed by city leaders without proper input from the people who live nearby.(Pierce Gentry / WUOT News )In late September of last year, Mountain City was devastated by record-shatt…