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Commissioners flag water use and decommissioning costs for proposed data center and crypto rules
Summary
During a workshop the Linn County Planning Commission raised water-consumption thresholds, decommissioning bonds and local-hiring plans for draft data center and cryptocurrency regulations, and agreed to remove a draft prohibition line and seek counsel on enforceability.
Linn County commissioners used a workshop session to scrutinize a draft regulation that would govern data centers and cryptocurrency mining, flagging high water consumption, potential noise and cooling impacts, and financial assurance for site reclamation.
Commissioner (S4) cited draft language that would treat large consumptive users differently and referenced a threshold of more than "10,000…
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