Townships and local municipalities in Pennsylvania are now beginning to deal with a new issue, particularly where there is active natural gas drilling. For years, local towns in PA have dealt with the issue of zoning and where to allow gas drilling. A recent (past few years) development is that cryptocurrency “miners” are beginning to locate their computer server farms near gas wells (in particular stranded gas wells) to purchase the gas and use it to generate the enormous amounts of electricity such installations require. So now township zoning boards have to deal not only with where to allow gas wells but where (and if) to allow cryptocurrency farms that take advantage of those wells.
