Residents in a Appalachian town say they're being forced to leave their homes due to a noisy cryptocurrency mine that has drawn petitions and protests. The facility in Murphy, one of two in Cherokee County, has made consistently made a sound that resident Mike Lugiewicz describes as 'a small jet that never leaves.' In September, one mine was described as Sound meters run by Lugiewicz out of his yard showed the ceaseless noise of the stacks of computer servers and cooling fans scoring from 55 to 85 decibels.
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