Texas community votes no on incorporating to fight Bitcoin mine(texastribune.org)
texastribune.org
Texas community votes no on incorporating to fight Bitcoin mine
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/05/texas-hood-county-bitcoin-noise-city-vote-fail/
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Not to be unnecessarily mean to Texans, but I think this is more of a Texas problem than a humanity problem.
A glib comment but the reality is that Texas is not that far off of the global mean
Texas is what the global mean aspires to be. My mom visited my extended family in Australia and Canada (we’re originally from a third world country) and came back ranting about how “poor” those countries were and how “nobody can get rich.” What she meant was that they don’t have big mcmansions on two acres everywhere and a doctor or lawyer or engineer only makes a comfortable salary instead of a $500k+.
“Texas is what the global mean aspires to be” huh?
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"Texas counties lack authority to enforce noise limits"
Perhaps Texas idealism means The Profits of the One outweigh Welfare of the Many.
Another possible interpretation is that: Profit alone makes the unethical, ethical.
Plenty of quotes from anti-mine residents. Not one from a pro-mine voter.
These are from the company.
“We're pleased that Hood County voters saw through the sham incorporation effort and rejected it at the ballot box,” a spokesperson for MARA said.
“As we've said from the start, this was an unlawful attempt to weaponize municipal incorporation against law-abiding businesses like MARA.”
“We remain focused on creating jobs, supporting local communities, and being a responsible neighbor.”
The story otherwise paraphrases general sentiment (e.g., people moved there to avoid city regulations)
These are from the company.
“We're pleased that Hood County voters saw through the sham incorporation effort and rejected it at the ballot box,” a spokesperson for MARA said.
“As we've said from the start, this was an unlawful attempt to weaponize municipal incorporation against law-abiding businesses like MARA.”
“We remain focused on creating jobs, supporting local communities, and being a responsible neighbor.”
The story otherwise paraphrases general sentiment (e.g., people moved there to avoid city regulations)
I don't get it, he could provide free water heating to the neighborhood and get rid of active ventilation noise. Every joule accepted to heat cold water is a joule less to get rid off with fans.
Do you really think the Bitcoin mining firm would pay to retrofit all of their equipment for water cooling, and to install a massive hot water network, out of the goodness of their own hearts? I find that really unlikely.
(Plus: does the town even need the hot water? It's Texas, after all. During most of the year, residents need air conditioning much more than hot water...)
(Plus: does the town even need the hot water? It's Texas, after all. During most of the year, residents need air conditioning much more than hot water...)
when I look at todays temperatures it was a maximum of 12 deg C and a minimum of 2 deg C. Yes I think the neighborhood may prefer hot water over noise right now. Every single degree centrigrade warmer the water arrives, thats a calorie of energy per liter water saved on the energy bills.
Your observation has an N of 1… Texas is almost never as cold as today, even in December. Most of the year is 35 C to 40 C and the cold water supply is warm to the touch.
I wish the article had a quote from a resident who voted against it, saying why they did so.
Another reason to use Monero.
Individual property owners having no desire to be part of a unified community in order to address an externality caused by a corporation exporting pollution.
That’s it. You can’t fix that which means independent human organizations can’t form that aren’t focused around direct financial benefit to the individual.