Chesterfield County has no cryptocurrency-mining-specific ordinance. A commercial crypto-mining or blockchain-computing operation is treated as a data center or industrial computing use, so it falls under the same ZOMod conditional use permit requirement and the general § 14-27 noise ordinance that govern data centers.
There is no standalone crypto or blockchain provision in the Chesterfield County code or the ZOMod zoning ordinance. A facility that mines cryptocurrency at commercial scale is a high-density computing operation functionally identical to a data center, so the county regulates it the same way: not by-right, permitted only in the Employment Center (EC) and Employment General (EG) districts, and requiring a conditional use permit. Cooling noise from mining rigs is governed by the general 'plainly audible' ordinance in Code § 14-27, and the CUP process lets the county impose conditions on buffers, screening and noise. Small-scale home crypto mining is not separately regulated but remains subject to the residential noise ordinance and home occupation limits.
No crypto-specific penalty exists. A commercial mining operation built without the required conditional use permit is enforced as a zoning violation by the Planning Department; excessive noise is a § 14-27 misdemeanor carrying a $100–$500 fine.
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