Plumas County has no ordinance specific to cryptocurrency or blockchain mining. A commercial mine is regulated like any data center - an industrial use for the Heavy Industrial (I-1) or Light Industrial (I-2) zone, permitted after site development review and CEQA, and conditioned to meet General Plan noise standards.
Unincorporated Plumas County does not name cryptocurrency, bitcoin, or blockchain mining anywhere in its Zoning Code (Title 9). Because a mine is a room of servers and cooling gear, it is treated the same as a data center: classified by the Planning Director as an industrial or public-utility use, sited in the I-1 or I-2 industrial zone, and routed through site development review under Section 9-2.1132, with CEQA review and a site development permit where the facility may significantly affect the environment. Continuous noise from rigs and cooling is conditioned to the General Plan Noise Element levels. Small-scale hobby mining inside a home falls under ordinary residential and home-occupation rules, not industrial zoning.
No crypto-specific penalty exists. A commercial mine built outside an industrial zone, without a required site development or building permit, or exceeding its permit's noise conditions, faces county zoning, permit, and code-enforcement action until it conforms.
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