{"id":3750,"date":"2025-10-16T22:35:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=3750"},"modified":"2025-10-17T01:38:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:38:04","slug":"bitcoin-opposition-on-michigans-upper-peninsula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/bitcoin-opposition-on-michigans-upper-peninsula\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin  opposition on Michigan\u2019s upper peninsula"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A bitcoin mine came online in Dafter Township, MI. Locals are displeased.<br><br>This is what has locals concerned: (1) Noise that is so loud students don\u2019t go outside, and it is impacting their education. (2) Migratory bird patterns have changed. (3) Energy and water use rates being impacted,&nbsp;&nbsp;including the increase to local electric rates. (4) Documents filed by the company described the facility as a storage facility, not a bitcoin&nbsp;mining operation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neighboring communities are passing prohibitions to protect them from similar fates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michiganadvance.com\/2025\/10\/10\/a-bitcoin-mine-came-to-michigans-upper-peninsula-and-dafter-township-isnt-happy\/\">Michigan Advance | A Bitcoin mine came to Michigan\u2019s Upper Peninsula, and Dafter Township isn\u2019t happy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/10102025\/michigan-upper-peninsula-bitcoin-mine-noise-litigation\/\">Inside Climate News | A Bitcoin Mine Came to Michigan\u2019s Upper Peninsula, and Dafter Township Isn\u2019t Happy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bitcoin mine came online in Dafter Township, MI. Locals are displeased. This is what has locals concerned: (1) Noise that is so loud students don\u2019t go outside, and it is impacting their education. (2) Migratory bird patterns have changed. (3) Energy and water use rates being impacted,&nbsp;&nbsp;including the increase to local electric rates. (4) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3755,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions\/3755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}