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CleanSpark Mountain City Bitcoin Mining Facility
Mountain City, Johnson County, Tennessee · All 25 CleanSpark sites
CleanSpark Mountain City Bitcoin Mining Facility is a proposed crypto mining site in Mountain City, Tennessee (Johnson County), operated by CleanSpark, Inc. The public record puts it at 30 MW planned, 50 acres. It faces documented, organized local opposition.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- CleanSpark, Inc.
- Facility type
- Crypto mining
- Location
- Mountain City, Johnson County, TN
- Coordinates
- 36.4746, -81.8048 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- 30 MW planned
- Land
- 50 acres
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Mountain Electric Cooperative
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- Opposed
- Source confidence
- Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing
Opposition and litigation at this site
Yes. Organized local opposition to CleanSpark Mountain City Bitcoin Mining Facility in Mountain City, Johnson County, Tennessee is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. WUOT/LPM (2025-08-15) reports Mountain City leaders courted CleanSpark from February 2025 in closed-door meetings and advanced planning proposals without proper public notice; residents did not learn of the plan until April 2025.
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: opposed means documented, organized local opposition is the dominant signal on record.
WUOT/LPM (2025-08-15) reports Mountain City leaders courted CleanSpark from February 2025 in closed-door meetings and advanced planning proposals without proper public notice; residents did not learn of the plan until April 2025. A widely circulated petition, hours of public comment and a packed 50-person town hall on 2025-08-07 were firmly opposed, on grounds of noise, halted realty deals and reduced asking prices nearby, plus unaddressed local-government conflicts of interest. Mayor Jerry Jordan said he does not open all constituent messages, only those from people he personally knows, and after threats of legal action said "I guess we made a mistake." Baxtel separately reports the Board of Mayor and Aldermen later approved a zoning change for the site over hundreds of petition signatures.
Notes on the record
Distinct from CleanSpark's ten existing Tennessee sites; Mountain City is in Johnson County in the far northeast corner of the state. Both sources agree on 30 MW and 50 acres in a residential part of town. STATUS IS UNSETTLED AND THE SOURCES CONFLICT: WUOT (2025-08-15) reports city leaders 'beginning to back down' after threats of legal action, while Baxtel's undated summary says the Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved a zoning change and lists the facility as planned for 2027 and still needing further approvals. Recorded as proposed at confidence 'reported' for that reason; no source fetched here shows a building permit or construction start. Context in WUOT's account: Mountain City, population about 2,500, lost its largest employer, a yarn factory, after Hurricane Helene flooding in September 2024, costing over 100 jobs, and CleanSpark SVP Harry Sudock framed the project as replacing that tax base. The utility promised roughly $170,000 in additional annual city tax revenue. Baxtel says CleanSpark plans immersion cooling to mitigate noise; that is a stated intent for an unbuilt site and is deliberately NOT recorded in the mining.coolingType field. Coordinates are the Mountain City town centroid, not the parcel, no source states the site's address or lat/lon.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Cooling method and water use
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
Which document closes each gap
- Cooling method and water use
- The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the CleanSpark Mountain City Bitcoin Mining Facility in Mountain City?
Yes. Organized local opposition to CleanSpark Mountain City Bitcoin Mining Facility in Mountain City, Johnson County, Tennessee is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. WUOT/LPM (2025-08-15) reports Mountain City leaders courted CleanSpark from February 2025 in closed-door meetings and advanced planning proposals without proper public notice; residents did not learn of the plan until April 2025.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the CleanSpark Mountain City Bitcoin Mining Facility?
No lawsuit over CleanSpark Mountain City Bitcoin Mining Facility appears in the record we track as of September 9, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does CleanSpark Mountain City Bitcoin Mining Facility use?
No water withdrawal figure for CleanSpark Mountain City Bitcoin Mining Facility is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates CleanSpark Mountain City Bitcoin Mining Facility, and how big is it?
CleanSpark, Inc. is the operator on record. We hold 25 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 30 MW. The site is recorded at 50 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "CleanSpark Mountain City Bitcoin Mining Facility," updated September 9, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/cleanspark-mountain-city-tn.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/cleanspark-mountain-city-tn, retrieved September 14, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.How one rural Tennessee town pushed back over a proposed bitcoin mine and won · WUOT News via Louisville Public Media · retrieved September 9, 2026
- 2.CleanSpark: Mountain City, TN · Baxtel · retrieved September 9, 2026
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