Crypto and HPC data center provider Soluna has finalized the purchase of 60 acres of land in Texas for the construction of its new 187MW data center, which will be allocated to Bitcoin mining and intensive AI computing tasks.
Soluna announced the finalized purchase agreement on February 25, clearing the way for the company to break ground on its new Project Rosa data center in Texas. The company first announced plans to acquire the site in October.
The site is colocated with a 240MW wind farm, allowing the firm to harness a large portion of its renewable energy directly. Details on where Project Rosa will be located weren’t shared.
“Securing these land agreements is a critical achievement for Soluna,” said John Belizaire, CEO of Soluna. “Project Rosa not only enhances our operational capacity but also reinforces our commitment to delivering sustainable, cutting-edge solutions in high-performance computing.”
The new facility adds to Soluna’s ongoing expansion plans, which have seen it plan and launch several large data centers dedicated to Bitcoin mining, artificial intelligence tasks, and other compute-intensive applications.
In addition to Project Rosa, Soluna is in the process of developing several similar sites, including the 166MW Project Kati, the 50MW Dorothy I, Dorothy II, and three others - all of which are currently at varying degrees of completion.
The company aims to host a total of 479MW of data center capacity spread across seven separate sites. The site at Project Rosa will make up 39 percent of the firm’s total capacity - the largest of its ongoing projects.
Earlier this month, Soluna expanded its working partnership with Bitcoin mining company Bit Digital, which purchased a 12-month 5.5MW hosting contract to increase its total hosting via Soluna to 12MW.
In January, Soluna signed a one-year hosting contract with IT solutions provider Atlas Cloud. The deal will see Soluna provide the computing power for Atlas Cloud’s AI video processing workloads, and includes the deployment of sixty-four Nvidia H100 SXM GPUs, which Soluna procured via its agreement with Hewlett Packard Enterprises in mid-2024.
