Blockchain Power Corp. Blacksville Bitcoin Mining Site

Opposition and litigation at this site

Nothing on record as of September 10, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Blockchain Power Corp. Blacksville Bitcoin Mining Site in Blacksville, Monongalia County, West Virginia appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.

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Power and water

Site uses hydrocooling that 'recycles approximately 200,000 gallons of water pulled from the Monongahela River' per the Dominion Post (2026-03-11); classified closed_loop under this dataset's rule that a recirculating water circuit governs regardless of marketing language, since the source describes the water as recycled/recirculated rather than single-pass.

Public money on the record

Notes on the record

Sited at the former Blacksville No. 2 coal mine (closure in 2021 cost 180 jobs, per the Dominion Post). One of five West Virginia Bitcoin-mining sites Blockchain Power Corp. has energized in its first two years (others at Hazelton, Ben's Run, Tunnelton, and Miracle Run in Preston/Tyler/Monongalia counties, not individually recorded here); the five sites combine for 107MW, individually 'driven by 10 megawatts to 100 megawatts of reliable power' per the Dominion Post, with Blacksville the newest and only hydrocooled site (the other four use air-cooling per WBOY). The Dominion Post's cited filing address (1251 Earl L Core Rd, Morgantown, WV 26505) reads as an administrative/mailing address rather than the mine-site parcel itself, so it was NOT used for this record's coordinates; coordinates instead approximate the Blacksville, Monongalia County community near the former mine. Monongalia County Commission approved the property-tax exoneration March 11, 2026 over the objection of Commission President Tom Bloom, who questioned fairness to local taxpayers under the special valuation (assessed at 5% of acquisition cost vs. the standard 60%). Company-wide (not site-specific) target is 200MW combined capacity by end of 2026 (blockchain-power.com, not separately cited here as a distinct fetch beyond company background).

Other sites within 30 miles

Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.

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