Mountain View has no cryptocurrency-mining ordinance and no energy cap. A commercial mining operation functions as a data center, permitted by right in the ML and MM industrial districts within a fully enclosed building, and bound by the citywide noise-disturbance standard.
Mountain View's City Code has no crypto-mining, bitcoin, or blockchain use category and no energy or power-draw cap. Because a warehouse of mining rigs produces heat, power draw, and noise like any data center, it fits the named "Data center" use under Section 36.20.15(a)(2) and is permitted by right in the ML and MM districts when conducted within a fully enclosed building. Continuous cooling noise must satisfy the Chapter 10, Article 13 noise-disturbance standard rather than a fixed decibel cap. Home-based mining is ordinary residential use, subject to the same noise-disturbance rule across a residential property boundary.
There are no crypto-specific penalties. A commercial mining facility outside an ML or MM district, or not in a fully enclosed building, is a zoning violation, and disturbing noise is enforced under Section 10.13.030.
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