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WILLISTON, NED (AP) — Construction of a crypto-mining data center in northwestern North Dakota will be delayed, after a county commission voted Tuesday to ask a utility company to cut power to the project due to repeated construction delays.
FX Solutions Inc. is building the $1.9 billion center near Williston in Williams County. It will be owned and operated by Atlas Power.
The county commission voted on Tuesday to ask the Mountrail-Williams Electric Co-Operative to shut off power to phase two of the project, KFGO reported.
Commission Chairman Cory Hanson said construction officials missed a June 16 deadline to meet several county stipulations for the project and offered no explanation for the delays.
There are seven stipulations that need to be taken care of and until those are done, I don’t really know what else we can do but shut off the power, Hanson said.
The project had received previous extensions to complete roadworks, security, noise abatement and other basic construction that it promised to complete months ago.
The commission heard several noise complaints and documented numerous zoning violations during construction, and in previous meetings, county employees reported that crypto-mining servers in one section were operating without an occupancy certificate, a reported KFGO.
In early June, Rick Tabish, president of FX Solutions, said the firms were ahead of schedule to complete the required work within the 45 days set by the commission on May 2.
The commission also voted to impose a six-month moratorium on any new crypto data centers, to give the county planning and zoning department time to update ordinances in response to project delays.
When Governor Doug Burgum announced the project in January 2022, he said it would be one of the largest data centers in the world as North Dakota tries to become a high-computing hub. performance, including cryptocurrency mining.
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