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The noise from the US Bitcoin mine on Buffalo Avenue hasn’t improved.
Mayor Robert Restaino said on his weekly Youtube broadcast that the city will be monitoring the Buffalo Avenue facility.
Sara Zielinski lives nearby and finds the noise maddening
“I noticed the mayor addressed this issue in his weekly Youtube video” Zielinski said. “He must have gotten a ton of complaint.”
The Express recently visited the site. The din from the data facility is pervasive on Falls Street by Gadawski’s and though the whole neighborhood.
“It does sound like the highway noise but I think it sounds more like a jet that is right on top of your house and never leaves,” Zielinski said. “Along with the noise there are also vibrations. It is weird because the noise is not all the time, but it can either go for days or weeks at a time and just randomly cut off.
“It can also change multiple times during the day. The weather conditions seem to affect the noise but I don't think that's the whole picture.”
Zielinski is especially concerned because the noise has worsened. The cacophony is generated by fans on cooling units needed to keep processors humming to collect block chain.
The fully permitted facility on 56th has not been the topic of as much controversy.
Meanwhile, work continues daily on a “data center” at the former Globe Metallurgical site at College and Highland Avenue where an outfit called 9 Lives Digital is building out a data center.
It will be interesting to see if, when the noise pollution drowns out the sound of the Whirlpool rapids, the code enforcement department is more responsive.
