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ExoticRidge Bulls Gap Bitcoin Mine

Bulls Gap, Hawkins County, Tennessee

ProposedOpposedRecord updated September 21, 2026

ExoticRidge Bulls Gap Bitcoin Mine is a proposed crypto mining site in Bulls Gap, Tennessee (Hawkins County), operated by ExoticRidge Crypto Company LLC. The public record puts it at 8 MW planned. It faces documented, organized local opposition.

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Facility record

Proposed

Operator: ExoticRidge Crypto Company LLC
Facility type: Crypto mining
Location: Bulls Gap, Hawkins County, TN
Coordinates: 36.2536, -83.0861 (approximate)
Power capacity: 8 MW planned
Land: Not established from a public source
Investment: Not established from a public source
Announced: Not established from a public source
Utility: Not established from a public source
Power source: On site gas
Cooling: air
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

Timeline from the record

Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.

April 10, 2026
Proposed
Proposed 8 MW bitcoin mine adjacent to a fractionation plant in Bulls Gap; blocked by a county-wide ban and the subject of pending federal litigation. Source: WUOT (Knoxville NPR)

Opposition and litigation at this site

Yes. Organized local opposition to ExoticRidge Bulls Gap Bitcoin Mine in Bulls Gap, Hawkins County, Tennessee is documented in the public record. Hawkins County Commission passed a resolution in September 2025 prohibiting cryptocurrency mining and data center operations county-wide; neighbours cited noise and electricity-rate concerns.

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.

Hawkins County Commission passed a resolution in September 2025 prohibiting cryptocurrency mining and data center operations county-wide; neighbours cited noise and electricity-rate concerns. The Beacon Center of Tennessee filed a federal civil-rights suit on the company's behalf in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee in April 2026.

Source: WUOT (Knoxville NPR)

Power and water

Company states the site would generate its own electricity on site from ethane produced by an adjacent natural-gas fractionation plant, currently flared through a 45-foot pipe, rather than drawing from the local grid.

Notes on the record

Coordinates are the Bulls Gap town point; no parcel or street address has been published. ExoticRidge is a Kentucky-based operator that runs two bitcoin mines in Kentucky and proposed this as its third site.

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.

Tax abatements or other public subsidy
Permanent jobs promised
Land area
Which utility serves it

Which document closes each gap

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.
Land area: The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
Which utility serves it: The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.

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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.

CleanSpark Limestone Bitcoin Mining Facility (closed 2026) · Limestone · CleanSpark, Inc.26 mi · Cancelled · In litigation

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the ExoticRidge Bulls Gap Bitcoin Mine in Bulls Gap?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the ExoticRidge Bulls Gap Bitcoin Mine?

The reception note on this record refers to a court proceeding. Read it in full under opposition and litigation above, and check the sources at the foot of the page for the filing itself.

How much water does ExoticRidge Bulls Gap Bitcoin Mine use?

No water withdrawal figure for ExoticRidge Bulls Gap Bitcoin Mine is on record here. Cooling is recorded as air, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates ExoticRidge Bulls Gap Bitcoin Mine, and how big is it?

ExoticRidge Crypto Company LLC is the operator on record. Capacity on record is 8 MW.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "ExoticRidge Bulls Gap Bitcoin Mine," updated September 21, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/exoticridge-bulls-gap-tn.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.0 (September 21, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/exoticridge-bulls-gap-tn, retrieved October 1, 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.ExoticRidge v. Hawkins County: Fighting back against an arbitrary data center ban in East Tennessee · Beacon Center of Tennessee · retrieved September 14, 2026
2.Conservative think tank calls local data center ban 'unconstitutional' in new civil rights lawsuit · WUOT (Knoxville NPR) · retrieved September 21, 2026

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