Troup County, GA Data Centers & Crypto Mining: Crypto Mining Rules (2026)

Troup County's Unified Development Ordinance addresses crypto and data mining specifically, not through a general nuisance or power-use standard but as a named prohibited home occupation. Sec. 7.3(6.1-1)(k), the prohibited-use list for residential home occupations on lots of two acres or less, bars crypto currency/data mining operations involving high-energy computer processing for profit alongside businesses using hazardous materials, vehicle repair or body work, junkyards, and outdoor storage. The identical prohibition appears again in Sec. 7.3(6.2)(i), the prohibited list for home occupations on lots over two acres, meaning the ban applies countywide in unincorporated Troup County regardless of parcel size or zoning district, covering AG, AGR, RR, LR, SU-R, MFR, USD and SD-MH districts alike.

Because the clause is written into the home-occupation article rather than the commercial or industrial use tables, it specifically targets residential crypto or data-mining setups, such as a garage or accessory building full of mining rigs run for profit; it does not by its terms reach a data center sited on commercially or industrially zoned land, which would instead be evaluated under the county's general commercial and industrial use standards in Sec. 6.1's permitted-use table. No home occupation certificate or business license can be issued for a crypto or data-mining operation under either subsection, so the activity cannot be legalized on a residential lot by permit; it is a categorical ban rather than a conditional or numeric limit.