After many residents and property owners have expressed concern over the incoming crypto facility near Cave City, a public meeting will be held tonight at 5:30 p.m. at the Cave City High School for residents to have their answer questions.
According to meeting organizer Rep. Bart Schultz the meeting will deal directly with the facility that is to be placed on West Center Street. Originally, the meeting was set for March, however; due to the March 14 tornado that devastated the town, the meeting was postponed.
“I’ve been communicating with some of the primary people from this company who are wanting to start this there… Now we have come up with a presentation for the public explaining what they want to do there. They are going to try to answer everyone’s questions,” Schultz said. “These guys said they had a pretty detailed plan. They want ot communicate their good intentions to the community. I’m not an expert in this arena and so I just know what they’ve told me. I do know we have passed quite a lot of laws on these types of facilities In 2023 as far as noise, water runoff etcetera and it’s enforced by the Arkansas Department of Enviornmental Quality. I believe we will touch on that tonight as well.”
Cave City Mayor Jonas Anderson said although the facility is outside of the Cave City, city limits, resident’s concerns are valid. Anderson said he had the opportunity to speak with the owners of the facility late last year.
“Anytime you have crypto mining facility or honestly even just a data warehouse where racks of servers are housed and a lot of times those get used for offsite disaster recovery backups for companies and businesses around the county. This is something I’m very familiar with through my IT career I have in addition to being mayor. It is something of legitimate concern to a lot of people,” Anderson said. “It is outside the city limits, but it is very close to our community. From my perspective I’m most interested that if and when this does come, which it looks like it is, that all of the rules the county and state have in place are followed. I have met with the owners of the company several months back, and at the time, we talked about all of that and the concerns people have about these types of facilities and they were adamant to me that they are focused on following those rules and being good neighbors and good community partners.”
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