Soluna and Applied Digital have signed a definitive agreement to jointly develop a 50MW data center at Soluna's Project Dorothy 3 site near Silverton in Briscoe County, Texas, adjacent to the Briscoe Wind Farm. Applied Digital will hold a 51 percent interest in the joint venture and Soluna the remaining 49 percent, with Applied providing capital and Soluna contributing land and power-related assets. ChronoScale, the AI cloud firm spun off from Applied Digital, has signed a non-binding letter of intent to lease the facility. The deal is expected to close by year-end, pending a tax abatement approval in Briscoe County, and the site could expand to 300MW at full build-out.
The transaction pairs a renewable-energy-anchored crypto miner pivoting to AI infrastructure with an established AI data center builder, creating a model that ties wind generation directly to AI compute capacity at a single site. The deal's dependence on a Briscoe County tax abatement sets a local-approval condition that could affect the timeline of a project intended to scale to 300MW.
A named partnership between Soluna and Applied Digital to build a 50MW facility in Texas is a specific, measurable construction announcement with clear US market relevance and two identifiable companies.