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DATA MINING DISCUSSION - Justice of the Peace Donnie Herring (left) of talks to County Attorney Tiffany Nutt about some of the issues surrounding an ordinance that establishes building guidelines for data mining centers in Cleveland County. Herring, along with Justice Charles Rodgers of Rison, were both critical of the centers. Herring cited the fact that the centers are a tremendous drain on a community's electrical infrastructure and the centers do not provide any tax or employment benefits.

RISON - The Cleveland County Quorum Court and the Rison City Council both approved ordinances this week placing noise limitations and other restrictions on data mining centers that might come to the county or city.Data mining centers are facilities that house large banks of computers that run complex code for cryptocurrency like Bitcoin or process large amounts of digital data for businesses. Most data mining centers house thousands of computers which require a tremendous amount of electricity and also create high levels of noise to keep the computers cool.The ordinances approved by the Cleveland County Quorum Court and Rison City Council are essentially identical. County Judge Jimmy Cummings said the model ordinance was put together by a legal team with the Association of Arkansas Counties.The ordinance requires the owner of the property where the data center will be located to notify the neighbors of the intent to place a center there. It also requires the property owner to conduct noise level tests along the boundary of the property both before and after the center is built. There are also stipulations regarding what noise-reducing measures that must be included in the building plans.The complete ordinance can be found in its entirety in our public notices database, or in the printed edition.Local governments have until Aug. 1 to approve such guidelines before Act 851, a new state law governing data mining centers, goes into effect.Data mining centers have become a hot topic for local governments this year after residents living around some of the centers that have already been established in Arkansas and other states have complained about the loud noises coming from the facilities.Most data mining centers house thousands of computers. With that many computers working at the same time, a great amount of heat is created that must be pulled from the building to allow the computers to function properly. Currently, the most common method to do that is

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County, Rison Both Approve Ordinances on Data Mining - Cleveland County Herald