Elk Grove has no cryptocurrency-mining ordinance. A commercial mining facility is treated as a data center - sited in an industrial zone under Title 23 and bound by the Chapter 6.32 noise limits, with a conditional use permit if the use requires one.
Elk Grove's Municipal Code contains no crypto-mining, bitcoin, or blockchain use category and no energy cap targeting mining. A building of mining rigs draws power and produces heat and noise like a data center, so Planning classifies it into the nearest industrial use in Table 23.27-1 and locates it in an LI, LI/FX, HI, or MP zone - permitted by right as research and development or warehouse, or by conditional use permit as manufacturing or distribution. Continuous cooling noise must stay within Chapter 6.32: 55 dBA daytime and 45 dBA overnight at a residential property line. Home mining is ordinary residential use under the same noise limits.
There are no crypto-specific penalties. A commercial mining operation outside an industrial zone, or without a required conditional use permit, is a zoning violation, and noise over the Chapter 6.32 limits is enforced by the City.
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