By Anthony • January 11, 2025 10:27 am •
A Bitcoin mining facility caught fire in Grundy County, Iowa, earlier in the week.
Firefighters from Wellsburg and Grundy Center responded to a fire at the MiningStore facility and reported the fire had vented through the top of the building.
MiningStore is a Texas-based company that has opened up operations in Iowa.
MineStore’s website states it’s an “industrial-scale cryptocurrency mining facility, which uses energy generated from a partnership with the Grundy County Rural Electric Cooperative, had 1,700 crypto-mining computers with nine on-site engineers maintaining the on-site servers.”
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— Times-Republican (@marshalltowntr) January 7, 2025
Per Times-Republican:
Grundy County fire crews responded to a fire at a
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