Unincorporated San Luis Obispo County has no cryptocurrency-mining ordinance. A commercial mining facility is regulated like any data center — an industrial use needing a discretionary Minor Use Permit in the Industrial land use category — and must meet the same Table 3-2 stationary-source noise limits at nearby homes.
The County's Land Use Ordinance contains 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 Planning reviews it as an industrial use requiring a discretionary Minor Use Permit in the Industrial land use category, with CEQA review of power and water demand and, in the Coastal Zone, a Coastal Development Permit under Title 23. Its cooling and equipment noise must satisfy the Noise Element's Table 3-2 stationary-source limits — 50 dB daytime and 45 dB nighttime hourly Leq — at nearby homes. Home-scale mining is treated as ordinary residential use, subject to those same property-line noise limits at a neighbor's home.
There are no crypto-specific penalties. A commercial mining facility without the required permit is a zoning violation, and noise beyond the Noise Element's Table 3-2 limits is enforced by code enforcement against the responsible property.
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