HOOD COUNTY, Texas — Residents in an unincorporated part of Hood County rejected a plan to form a new town to impose noise regulations to quiet a crypto mine next door. The mine has been the subject ...
Residents of a rural North Texas community who have long complained about noise from a nearby bitcoin mine facility lost their effort to regulate the facility Tuesday night when 62% of the 138 voters ...
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. HOOD COUNTY — Danny Lakey and his ...
Danny Lakey and his neighbors didn’t know what that sound was when they first heard it in 2023. It was insistent, a droning sound in the distance, louder than a soft whir, but constant and unchanging.
“We moved here for this,” Danny Lakey says as he sits on his front porch overlooking ranchland, but he could hear the fans of the Marathon Digital bitcoin mine close by Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, in Hood ...
Cheryl Shadden looks towards the Marathon cryptocurrency facility and the Wolf Hollow II power plant from her land in Hood County on Sept. 24, 2025. (Shelby Tauber For The Texas Tribune, Shelby Tauber ...