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A Tennessee county has passed a second ban on digital asset mining facilities and data centers in unincorporated areas, with all 12 commissioners voting in favor.
The action arrives while the county is already defending a lawsuit filed by a digital asset company, giving the new prohibition a contested legal foundation before enforcement can begin.
The ban and its scope The prohibition names mining facilities and data centers and bars them from unincorporated county land.
Unincorporated territory falls outside incorporated cities and towns and sits under county zoning authority directly, the ground where county commissions can act without deference to a municipal government.
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