I Live 500 Feet From A Bitcoin Mine. My Life Is Hell.
Why Hacker News recommends it
Linked in crypto-mining threads for its picture of what nearby residents endure, though some commenters treat it as a case of corporations overriding locals.
What it is
A More Perfect Union report from a small Texas town next to a large Bitcoin mining facility, where residents describe constant noise and health problems. It looks at the political and corporate power behind the facility.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2025 to 2026.
What Hacker News said
Recommends georgemcbay · 2025-10 · on “Texas community will vote to form a city in effort to quiet crypto mine”
The wall they built looks like its kind of a joke when you see it in context and the situation is a lot worse than just not having the "original peaceful quiet". More Perfect Union did a video on this a few months ago that gives a better visceral sense of what these people are dealing with: [this video]
Cites Levitating · 2026-07 · on “Destroying a Community with a Gigantic "Clogged Vacuum Cleaner"”
This reminds of a video[1] from More Perfect Union about another (the same?) crypto mining facility in Texas. [1]: [this video]
Critical jordanb · 2025-07 · on “State capacity and eight parking spaces”
Biggest problems with "Abundance" are: 1) Somehow he decided euclidean zoning was a leftist project. Most leftists and environmentalists I've ever known hate euclidean zoning and this includes many urban planners. Euclidean zoning exists pretty much because property owners want to be able to exclude nearby land uses. It's fundamentally conservative, especially when the goal is to enforce limited housing density. 2) Setting up euclidean zoning as the main whipping boy and then saying "and also air quality regulations are basically the same thing" is a form of straw-manning the stuff he's arguing against. 3) He sets up a dichotomy between California and Texas ignoring that a lot of California'