NORTH TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WKBW) — North Tonawanda residents are pushing back on a plan to convert a controversial bitcoin mining facility on Erie Avenue into an AI data center.
On Monday, residents learned more about the plant managers of the bitcoin mining project on Erie Avenue, who are now asking that the site be converted into an AI data center.
Dan Rotunno, plant manager of World Generation X, a subsidiary of Digi Power X, is asking the North Tonawanda Planning Commission to allow the company to redesign everything. Rotunno said the company has already removed large portions of existing containers and that the equipment they are exchanging is no longer for bitcoin and is turned into an AI infrastructure.
Rotunno said, “What we’re proposing to do is everything that is already existing inside our fence lines and has already been disturbed. So, what we’re doing now is we’d like to put in a two-story building so we can house all of the computer equipment inside there.”
Rotunno also said the facility would use air cooling and would not draw water from the city…