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                    "More than 80 Starkville residents crowded into Tuesday night\u2019s meeting of the Planning and Zoning Commission meeting at City Hall to voice their concerns about a proposed bitcoin mining center. The commission held a public hearing for the facility\u2019s special exemption request during its regular meeting and recommended rejecting it. Paloma Green/Dispatch Staff\t\n\t\t\tSTARKVILLE \u2013 To the delight of a standing-room only crowd at City Hall on Tuesday, the Planning and Zoning Commission denied a special use exemption that would have allowed for a bitcoin mining facility to operate on Industrial Park Road.\nThe commission rejected the bid, agreeing with City Planner Daniel Havelin and Assistant City Planner Lyle MeCaskey\u2019s recommendation due to project representatives\u2019 inability to address unknowns, missing information from the application and public outcry in opposition to the project.\n\u201cI\u2019ve never had an applicant that had such a contentious issue be so unprepared,\u201d Jeremiah Dumas, Ward 6 commissioner, told The Dispatch after the meeting. \u201c\u2026You\u2019re talking about a multimillion-dollar thing that people generally don\u2019t like anyway. You would think they would come in there prepared but, no, not at all.\u201d\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tJeremiah Dumas\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\nThe proposed bitcoin mining facility needs a special exemption to develop on 407 Industrial Park Road under Starkville\u2019s Unified Development Code even though the area is zoned for industrial use because this type of facility is not specifically identified in the UDC. Coopers Land LLC applied for special use permission on behalf of the project and the three other companies listed for the project: Aspire Property Inc, Bitdeers Technologies Group and Starkville Energy LLC.\nMandy Jiang, the project representative from Starkville Energy LLC, told The Dispatch she was not aware until Tuesday afternoon that the application was lacking critical information. Jiang said this was the group\u2019s first time applying for a special exemption, which led to the issues with the application.\nHavelin and MeCaskey wrote a staff report recommending rejecting the exemption due to missing information regarding the site\u2019s water and wastewater needs, employment, flood planning and environmental review.\nJiang spoke at the meeting to try and alleviate concerns about utility usage, economic benefit and noise pollution.\nJiang explained the center\u2019s cooling system would require up to 50 gallons of water per minute, which would fill an Olympic-size swimming pool every nine days. The facility would require little to no water in cooler months but anticipates pulling 73,000 gallons a day at its peak, Jiang said.\nStarkville Utilities manager Edward Kemp told the commission that, if approved, the site would not be on an open water meter and would account for only 1% of Starkville Utilities\u2019 water sales. Kemp noted the proposed water usage is comparable to similar industrial uses in the city, with at least one unnamed manufacturer currently using between 50,000 and 75,000 gallons a day.\nKemp and Josh Wotten, a representative from the Tennessee Valley Authority, said the proposed facility would not represent a burden to Starville Utilities\u2019 electrical grid or TVA\u2019s distribution grid broadly.\nJiang said the facility would have a positive economic impact on the city through its yearly tax contributions and contractor employment during construction. The facility would be operated by a small team of six to seven employees, who would come in from out of town for a week at a time to manage it, Jiang told The Dispatch.\nJiang also tried to dissuade concerns surrounding the site\u2019s noise pollution by using a study conducted at its Puryear, Tennessee, facility, which is a comparable size, saying the sound produced is quieter than a dishwasher. The facility would also have a double wall barrier created by shipping containers to help dampen the sound, she told the commission.\nPublic concern\nResidents formed a long line to voice similar concerns outlined by city officials against the project following Jiang\u2019s presentation. Ten speakers were allowed to voice concerns before the committee closed public comments due to time constraints.\n\u201cWith scarce job creation and no tangible goods or services being brought to the community in exchange for too many unknown elements whose damage can\u2019t be properly assessed until it\u2019s too late, I strongly urge the commission not to provide this exemption,\u201d said Carys Snyder, a Ward 3 resident. \u201cAnd to be optimistic that a fast-growing town like ours will have offers from other companies with tangible benefits without these unknowns.\u201d\nJane Moorhead, a computer engineering professor at Mississippi State University who owns property adjacent to the site of the proposed facility, was among those who raised concerns surrounding potential noise pollution in the area.\nConcerns around potential noise pollution focused not only on impacts to residents but also on its impact to animals at the neighboring Oktibbeha County Humane Society.\nJiang said she doesn\u2019t think the facility would impact local animals, as she has seen dogs onsite at the group\u2019s Puryear, Tennessee, facility.\n\u201cI don\u2019t know how to explain it better. I think it\u2019s not even the explanation where they\u2019re concerned; they just hate us,\u201d Jiang told The Dispatch. \u201c\u2026 I remember what every single person said \u2026 but I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the point. They\u2019re not wanting an answer, they\u2019re just saying it because they don\u2019t want us here.\u201d\nMultiple residents also raised concerns about a lack of transparency around the developers and companies behind the project. Jiang told The Dispatch the group developing the site has a different LLC for each of their sites.\nJiang said all companies involved are American-based but declined to comment further on the specific companies involved.\nThe commission\u2019s rejection will go before the board of aldermen during its regular meeting at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall. If the board votes to deny the project, it can appeal the decision to the judiciary or reapply next year.\nStarkville LLC is not planning on attending next week\u2019s meeting, but that doesn\u2019t mean the group is giving up, Jiang told The Dispatch.\n\u201cI don\u2019t think we are going to give up. We\u2019re probably going to appeal,\u201d said Jiang. \u201c\u2026 We\u2019ve spent around $300,000 for this project already before anything got started. \u2026 If we give up, it\u2019s going to be like all their concerns are true \u2026 but it\u2019s not true and so we do not want to give up.\u201d\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n      \n      \n        Quality, in-depth journalism is essential to a healthy community. The Dispatch brings you the most complete reporting and insightful commentary in the Golden Triangle, but we need your help to continue our efforts. In the past week, our reporters have posted 42 articles to cdispatch.com. 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