[ad_1]
County commissioners will have to wait a month to hear a presentation from BrightRidge officials on steps the utility plans to take to address complaints about noise in a bitcoin mining operation in rural Washington County.
Board chairman Greg Matherly said on Friday that BrightRidge officials promised to come up with solutions to the problem at the Commissioners meeting in July.
BrightRidge officials were invited to attend the board meeting in June after commissioners heard from residents of the Limestone community last month. Craig Ponder, pastor of the New Salem Baptist Church, said his congregation and neighbors in the community were disturbed by the constant noise of the computers and cooling fans used by Red Dog Technologies in its cyber-mining operation.
Bitcoin mining is a process that produces cryptocurrency using computers to solve very complex mathematical problems.
At the request of Commissioner Kent Harris, BrightRidge will come next month to discuss solutions to the noise problem, Matherly said.
He noted that BrightRidge officials said the engineer involved in resolving these noise issues was unable to attend the committee meeting on Monday.
Matherly also said a presentation from the Northeast Tennessee Regional Economic Partnership asking the county to contribute $ 50,000 to help market a remote worker relocation initiative was also dropped from the committee’s monthly agenda.
Johnson City commissioners voted in April to contribute $ 100,000 to a marketing campaign led by NETREP, the Johnson City Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Northeast Tennessee Tourism Association to bring remote workers to the area.
Mitch Miller, CEO of the regional partnership, said NETREP will meet with county budget officials next month to explore other alternatives to fund the remote worker relocation incentive program.
[ad_2]
picture credit