Mexican Authorities Raid Crypto Farm Amid Power Theft Allegations
A remote crypto farm in Puebla, Mexico was recently raided by authorities after an alleged power theft case. The site contained around 300 graphics processing units, medium-voltage equipment, and satellite antennas.
The investigation centers on suspected power theft, with officials examining possible organized-crime and laundering links. Mining cryptocurrency is not prohibited in Mexico itself, but the authorities are looking into whether the site was connected illegally to nearby power infrastructure.
The equipment list does not prove Bitcoin was mined, as GPUs can support different crypto and computing workloads. The GPU list therefore cannot establish that the facility was producing Bitcoin rather than another asset or running another type of high-intensity computing.