January 7, 2025
GRUNDY CENTER – Grundy County fire crews responded to a smokestack at a Bitcoin mining facility west of Grundy Center Sunday night.
Firefighters from Wellsburg, Holland and Grundy Center responded to a call at the MiningStore facility just north of the Highway 14/175 interchange, about 8 miles west of Grundy Center around 6:15 p. m. m. Sunday night, according to Chase Babcock, Grundy County Emergency. Management Coordinator.
Babcock added that when crews arrived on scene, the fire had already spread through the top of the hoop structure onto the property.
According to the MiningStore website, the industrial-scale cryptocurrency mining facility, which uses power generated through a partnership with the Grundy County Rural Electric Cooperative, had 1,700 cryptocurrency mining computers and nine on-site engineers maintaining the servers on the site. Babcock said no injuries were reported at the scene.
MiningStore, a Texas-based company, opened the Grundy County facility in 2020. As of press time, a MiningStore representative could not be reached for comment on the extent of damage to the mine or the plans. future for the site.
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