Madera County has no ordinance specific to cryptocurrency or blockchain mining. A commercial mining operation is treated as a data center or industrial use, sited in the IL or IH districts and bound by the same Zoning Ordinance, Conditional Use Permit and CEQA review, and General Plan noise limits.
Unincorporated Madera County does not single out cryptocurrency or bitcoin mining in its code. Because a mining operation is a room of servers and cooling equipment, it is regulated like any data center: sited in the IL (Industrial, Light) or IH (Industrial, Heavy) zoning districts under Title 18, classified by the Planning Director, and typically requiring a Conditional Use Permit with CEQA review. Its cooling and any generators must meet the General Plan Noise Element limits of 50 dB Leq day and 45 dB Leq night at a nearby home, plus County Code Chapter 9.58. Small-scale hobby mining on personal equipment inside a home falls under ordinary residential and home-occupation rules, not industrial zoning.
No crypto-specific penalty exists. A commercial mining facility built outside an IL or IH district, without a Conditional Use Permit, or exceeding the noise limits faces county zoning and noise enforcement and denial of permits until it conforms.
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