The City of Sacramento has no cryptocurrency-mining ordinance. A commercial mining facility is regulated like any data center - sited in an M-1 or M-2 industrial zone and bound by the City Code section 8.68.060 noise limits.
Sacramento's City Code contains no crypto-mining, bitcoin, or blockchain use category and no energy cap targeting mining. A warehouse of mining rigs draws power and produces heat and noise like a data center, so it is classified into the nearest industrial use in the M-1 or M-2 tables - permitted by right when sited more than half a mile from a light-rail station platform, otherwise by conditional use permit with CEQA review. Cooling noise must stay within section 8.68.060: 55 dBA daytime and 50 dBA overnight at agricultural or residential property. Home-based mining is ordinary residential use, subject to the same property-line noise limits.
There are no crypto-specific penalties. A commercial mining operation outside an industrial zone, or without a required conditional use permit, is a Title 17 zoning violation, and noise over the section 8.68.060 limits is enforced by the City.
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