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Colusa Indian Energy, a Tribal-owned energy company in California, offers sustainable energy alternatives to Tribes and directs profit back to the Cachil DeHe Band of Wintun Indians. Colusa’s Tribal data center power projects include the Spokane Tribe, Redding Rancheria, and the Colusa Indian Community, Ken Ahmann, Colusa Indian Energy’s COO, confirmed.
Ahmann targets Nations who view hyperscale data center development as inevitable and are interested in generating revenue for Nations trapped in poverty by policy and mitigating the AI boom’s environmental impact.
Beyond those three projects, Colusa has struck data center development partnerships with more than 50 Native Nations nationwide, building turnkey microgrids that combine solar, battery storage, and gas-fired generation, and allowing Nations to control their own on-site power rather than wait years in a utility’s interconnection queue.
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