Tehama County has no ordinance specific to cryptocurrency or blockchain mining. A commercial mining operation is treated as a data center or industrial use, allowed in the M-1 or M-2 industrial zones and subject to the same zoning, CEQA review, and General Plan noise standards.
Unincorporated Tehama County does not mention cryptocurrency, bitcoin, or blockchain mining anywhere in Title 17; 'mining' in the county code refers to extracting rock and minerals, not computing. Because a crypto operation is a room of servers and cooling equipment, it is regulated exactly like a data center: the Planning Department classifies it as an industrial use, sites it in the M-1 or M-2 zone, and applies a use permit and CEQA where the project is discretionary. Its cooling and generator noise must meet the General Plan Table 9-7 limits at nearby homes. Small-scale home mining on personal equipment falls under ordinary residential and home-occupation rules, not industrial zoning.
No crypto-specific penalty exists. A commercial mining facility built outside an M-1 or M-2 zone, without a required use permit or CEQA clearance, or exceeding the General Plan noise limits, faces county zoning and code enforcement until it conforms.
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