Data Center Registry
Buena Vista AI Factory
Ione, Amador County, California
Buena Vista AI Factory is a proposed data center in Ione, California (Amador County), operated by NewYork GreenCloud. The public record puts it at a reported $171 million investment.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- NewYork GreenCloud
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- 4655 Coal Mine Road, Ione, Amador County, CA, 95640
- Coordinates
- 38.2782, -120.9116 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- $171 million
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Power source
- Other
- On site generation
- 41 MW
- Cooling
- Closed loop
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing
Timeline from the record
Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.
- January 2026ProposedNewYork GreenCloud announced acquisition of the Buena Vista Biomass Power facility to launch a carbon-negative AI factory; as of July 2026 no construction permit or Environmental Impact Report had been filed for the data center. Source: myMotherLode.com
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of September 21, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Buena Vista AI Factory in Ione, Amador County, California appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
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Power and water
Redevelopment of the existing 18 MW Buena Vista Biomass Power plant into a 41 MW biomass-to-pyrolysis facility powering an on-site, behind-the-meter AI compute hall using regionally sourced forestry and agricultural residues.
Notes on the record
About $4 million had been spent on plant renovation as of July 2026, with roughly $171 million planned for modernisation and data center construction; a soft operational test of the repowered plant was targeted for August 2026. Recorded as a data center rather than power generation because the generation is dedicated to the co-located compute; no IT capacity figure has been published, so capacityMw is omitted.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Power capacity in megawatts
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- Land area
- How the community has received it
- Which utility serves it
Which document closes each gap
- Power capacity in megawatts
- The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- Land area
- The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
- Which utility serves it
- The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.
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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Buena Vista AI Factory data center in Ione?
Nothing on record as of September 21, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Buena Vista AI Factory in Ione, Amador County, California appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Buena Vista AI Factory data center?
No lawsuit over Buena Vista AI Factory appears in the record we track as of September 21, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does Buena Vista AI Factory use?
No water withdrawal figure for Buena Vista AI Factory is on record here. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Buena Vista AI Factory, and how big is it?
NewYork GreenCloud is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Buena Vista AI Factory," updated September 21, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/nygc-buena-vista-ai-factory-ione-ca.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.0 (September 21, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/nygc-buena-vista-ai-factory-ione-ca, retrieved October 1, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.Biomass-fueled data center project planned in Amador County · myMotherLode.com · retrieved September 21, 2026
- 2.NewYork GreenCloud acquires Buena Vista Biomass Power facility to launch first carbon-negative AI factory · Biomass Magazine · retrieved September 14, 2026
- 3.Nominatim geocode of 4655 Coal Mine Road, Amador County, California · OpenStreetMap contributors · retrieved September 14, 2026
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