Overview
- Federal and state forces discovered and secured a large cryptocurrency‑mining facility in the Sierra Norte region of Puebla on Sunday, placing the property and hardware under federal custody.
- Investigators found about 300 specialized computing units running with heavy electrical gear, including a pedestal transformer, roughly 80 medium‑voltage terminals and eight satellite internet antennas.
- The Ministerio Público Federal now holds the equipment while prosecutors probe who operated the center and where the mined virtual assets were sent.
- The operation was led by the Fiscalía General de la República with the Secretaría de Marina and the state Secretaría de Seguridad Pública, which officials say used intelligence to target possible criminal finance structures.
- Authorities cited two key concerns that explain the probe: large mines can hide the noise and power draws in remote towns and their virtual assets can be used to obscure proceeds from illegal activity, a pattern seen in prior Puebla cases.