By Nicholas Phillips of WENY News
Torrey, NY (WENY) — The Yates County Planning Board on Thursday saw an application for a site plan involving a bitcoin mining factory and the plan to build several small facilities next to it.The application, involving the site plan includes building multiple equipment housing units on cement slabs. After much back and forth between the people of Torrey and a lawyer representing Greenidge Generation the board voted to not recommend the site plan for the expansion to the property. The application will now be sent back to the Town of Torrey for approval. The decision came after a spirited debate.
“I have five yeses, three no’s and one abstained,” said the person keeping count of the role.