Idled California Biomass Power Plant to Be Rebuilt as Carbon-Negative AI Factory

A startup specializing in carbon-negative artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure powered by renewable energy systems has acquired the idled Buena Vista Biomass Power facility in Ione, California, and plans to convert the legacy wood-burning plant into a 41-MW “carbon-negative AI factory.”

The redevelopment announced on Jan. 14, which New York-based NewYork GreenCloud (NYGC) is executing with biomass-to-pyrolysis engineering firm BucSha Energy, seeks to convert the existing 18-MW biomass facility into a 41-MW plant that will supply renewable baseload power directly to on-site AI training and inference operations.

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