AntMind
AntMind converts forestry waste into carbon-negative electricity and hydrogen to power on-site Bitcoin mining and future AI workloads. The company's closed-loop system captures carbon as biochar or through underground sequestration, making its energy output carbon-negative by design. AntMind is currently developing a 5MW demonstration site and a 30MW hydrogen-powered compute campus in British Columbia.
- Clean Technology
- Energy
- Blockchain & Cryptocurrency
- Chemical Technology
Funding
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
British Columbia discards or burns tens of millions of tonnes of forestry waste annually, wasting an energy source capable of powering the province twice over. Meanwhile, the explosive growth of AI and blockchain has created soaring demand for low-carbon, high-uptime power that traditional grid infrastructure struggles to supply.
Solution
AntMind transforms forestry waste into carbon-negative electricity and hydrogen through a cyclical autothermal gasification process that converts biomass into hydrogen-rich syngas without requiring an expensive oxygen plant. The resulting syngas can be refined into marketable hydrogen, renewable natural gas, or ultra-low-sulphur diesel, while Siemens turbines generate up to 20MW of electricity on-site. This power directly fuels Bitcoin miners and future AI workloads, eliminating transmission losses and grid reliance. Throughout the process, carbon is captured and stored either as stable biochar or sequestered underground, making the system carbon-negative by design while creating multiple revenue streams from energy, compute, and carbon credits.
Target Audience
Primary customers include Bitcoin mining operators and future AI/high-performance computing workloads seeking low-carbon, baseload power, as well as investors in carbon-negative energy infrastructure.
Features
- Cyclical autothermal gasification technology that converts forestry waste into hydrogen-rich syngas and biogenic CO₂ without an oxygen plant
- On-site Siemens turbines generating up to 20MW of electricity with no transmission loss or grid dependency
- Five scalable value pathways: green hydrogen, natural gas, renewable diesel, carbon-negative power/grid balancing, and Bitcoin-backed compute
- Carbon sequestration through stable biochar production and underground CO₂ storage, enabling carbon-negative operations
- Strategic forestry partnership securing 300 TPD (tonnes per day) of biomass supply for feedstock
- 5MW demonstration site with Fortis BC hydro electric Bitcoin mining facility and 30MW hydrogen-powered compute campus in development