- Details
- By Tribal Business News Staff
- Energy | Environment
A Northern California tribe and a private developer plan to build an artificial intelligence and energy infrastructure campus on tribal land, marking a push into power-intensive data development tied to existing microgrid capacity.
The project, led by tribally owned Colusa Indian Energy and Strata Expanse, will be located on land owned by the Cachil Dehe Band of Wintun Indians of the Colusa Indian Community.
The initial phase includes a Center of Excellence designed to test advanced AI workloads. The facility will connect to the tribe’s existing microgrid, with plans to expand on-site generation capacity to more than 100 megawatts within 18 months, according to the companies.
The development brings together technology partners including DDN, Supermicro, Nvidia, Intel and AMD to support computing infrastructure and early-stage deployments.
Colusa Indian Energy, a Section 17 corporation owned by the Cachil Dehe Band of Wintun Indians, operates a microgrid that has run in island mode for more than two decades. The project extends that energy platform into digital infrastructure, a sector facing rising demand from AI computing.
For The Woodlands, Texas-based Strata Expanse, a real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on energy-first data center development, the agreement is its first partnership with a tribal nation.
The companies announced the project this week during the Reservation Economic Summit (RES) in Las Vegas.
