Soluna hits 1GW with Two New Clean-Powered Data Centres
Soluna Holdings confirms it now has surpassed 1GW of clean computing projects in operation, construction or development.
This milestone is reached following the launch of two new sites in Texas – Project Fei and Project Gladys – bringing the company’s total renewable-powered data centre capacity beyond the gigawatt mark.
Soluna develops green data centres for high-intensity computing workloads such as Bitcoin mining and AI. The new additions to its pipeline reflect Soluna’s expansion from wind into solar-powered infrastructure.
“Reaching one gigawatt of clean computing projects in our total development pipeline is a transformative moment for Soluna,” says John Belizaire, CEO of Soluna.
“Getting these projects from development to operational will put us on par with some of the biggest companies in the world when it comes to clean-powered computing capacity, including Amazon, Meta and Google.
“This means we may be able to effectively displace nearly 48 million metric tons of CO₂, equivalent to removing 11 million cars from the road over the life of these assets, and we believe this is just the beginning of what clean computing can do.”
Solar energy powers Project Fei
Project Fei, located in northern Texas, is a 100MW facility that will be powered by a 240MW utility-scale solar farm.
It is the company’s second data centre to be paired with solar generation.
The site is being developed in partnership with a global energy infrastructure investor, aiming to turn excess solar output into computing power.
The company names the project in honour of Dr Fei-Fei Li, a prominent AI researcher credited with creating ImageNet, a database central to the development of computer vision and machine learning.
Her work is widely regarded as influential in shaping the ethics and capability of modern AI systems.
Wind-powered expansion with Project Gladys
Soluna’s other new site, Project Gladys, will add 150MW of clean computing capacity.
Located in southeast Texas, it will be co-located with a 226MW wind farm and built in collaboration with a US-based independent power producer (IPP) that manages over US$40bn in assets across 80 energy facilities nationwide.
Like Project Fei, this facility is advancing through land acquisition, power contract negotiation and interconnection planning with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which manages the state’s power grid.
The project takes its name from Dr Gladys West, the mathematician whose early work in geospatial modelling laid the foundations for what later became global positioning system (GPS) technology.
With these two new sites, Soluna is expanding its footprint across renewable-powered digital infrastructure, reinforcing its plan to provide flexible and scalable solutions for compute-heavy sectors. The company’s renewable power pipeline now totals 2.8GW.
Flexible infrastructure for compute-intensive workloads
Soluna builds its data centres next to wind, solar or hydroelectric energy plants, allowing it to use surplus energy that might otherwise go to waste.
This strategic colocation approach not only maximises the utility of renewable power but also reduces the environmental cost of high-performance computing.
The company states it is targeting applications such as Bitcoin mining, Gen AI and other compute-intensive workloads.
These systems require large volumes of electricity and the growing demand for AI services in particular has raised concerns around energy use.
Soluna positions itself as offering a greener way to meet this demand.
Its in-house software platform, MaestroOS, helps manage how the data centres interact with the grid, enabling a balance between energy supply and computing loads. This ensures operational efficiency while contributing to grid stability.
Work now continues on finalising power purchase agreements, securing land and completing ERCOT planning for both Project Fei and Project Gladys.
Soluna also says it expects to confirm more partnerships and project expansions in the months ahead.