Noise & Light
Granbury residents sue Marathon over noise from bitcoin mining data center
Unverified
- Date
- 2024-10-04
- Location
- Granbury, Hood County, Texas, United States
- Category
- Noise & Light
- NOISE
Evidence
- Did the harm happen?
- Alleged — not established
- Did the data center cause it?
- Probable
- AI connection
- No verified AI connection
- What was affected
- Human health
- Why
- Bitcoin mine, not an AI facility; health claims are court allegations.
- Denials and outcomes
- Non-AI comparison record. Marathon's Wolf Hollow II facility is a bitcoin mining operation, not an AI data center, so it is excluded from the AI incident collection and from AI-specific counts. Held privately as a noise-pollution comparison case. The health claims are allegations in a pending nuisance suit.
Granbury residents, represented by Earthjustice, sued Marathon Digital Holdings over the constant noise from thousands of cooling fans at its bitcoin mining facility next to the Wolf Hollow II power plant, linking it to health problems. This is a cryptocurrency mine rather than an AI facility; the health claims are allegations in court.