North Tonawanda, N.Y. (WBEN) – During a meeting of the City Planning Committee in North Tonawanda on Monday, DigiHost – the crypto mining company at the forefront of much debate among residents with its plant along Erie Avenue – presented plans for approval to remove existing equipment from the site and replace it with a two-story, all enclosed 80,000 square-foot building to house a new AI data center.
This comes as a two-year moratorium for any new crypto mining activity in the city is set to expire in July, and before Gov. Kathy Hochul could sign a one-year moratorium on new data center activity in the State New York.
Dan Rotunno from DigiHost said during Monday’s meeting the initial project, which is on the front lawn and over to the North side of the facility, will see a redesigning of everything…