Mesa has no crypto-specific ordinance. Ordinance No. 5957's data-center definition expressly folds cryptocurrency mining into the "data center" land use, so mining operations are sited and regulated under Section 11-31-36 exactly like any other data center.
Mesa does not treat cryptocurrency mining as a separate land use or impose mining-specific rules. Section 11-86-5, added by Ordinance No. 5957, defines a data center to include facilities performing digital data operations that "may encompass activities related to artificial intelligence, block-chain technology, cryptocurrency mining, computational modeling, weather modeling, genome sequencing, and other computationally intensive applications." A standalone crypto-mining facility therefore must locate in General or Heavy Industrial zoning through a Council-authorized PAD Overlay and satisfy all Section 11-31-36 standards: 400-foot residential separation, 60-foot height cap, equipment screening, and the water, energy, wastewater, and sound-study submittals. The same 60/65/70 dBA property-line noise caps in Chapter 6-12 apply to mining cooling and equipment.
Operating a crypto-mining data center without PAD authorization or Section 11-31-36 compliance carries civil sanctions of $150-$2,500 per citation depending on prior offenses, with each day a separate violation and habitual offenders facing a class 1 misdemeanor.
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