Unincorporated Amador County has no cryptocurrency-mining ordinance. A commercial mining facility is regulated like a data center - an industrial or utility use needing a use permit in the M, MM, or LM districts and CEQA review - and must meet the same not-discernible-at-the-lot-boundaries noise standard.
Amador County's code has no crypto-mining, bitcoin, or blockchain use category. A warehouse of mining rigs draws the same power, heat, and continuous noise as a data center, so the Planning Department would classify it as an industrial or utility use under Chapter 19.24, requiring a use permit and, in most cases, a rezone to a manufacturing district, with CEQA review of power and water demand. The zoning performance standard applies: rig and cooling noise cannot be discernible at the lot boundaries. Home-scale mining is treated as ordinary residential use, subject to the Chapter 9.44 nuisance-noise ordinance.
There are no crypto-specific penalties. A commercial mining operation without the required use permit is a zoning violation - the county can withhold building permits, issue stop-work orders, and pursue code enforcement - and noise nuisances fall under Chapter 9.44.
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