{"id":103780,"date":"2025-08-28T19:12:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/103780\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T19:12:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:12:21","slug":"soluna-surpasses-1-gw-in-data-computing-that-co-locates-with-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/103780\/","title":{"rendered":"Soluna Surpasses 1 GW in Data Computing that Co-Locates with Renewable Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 100-MW Project Fei is going to be built near a 240-MW solar power farm in northern Texas. The data center project honors Dr. Fei-Fei Li<\/a>, a pioneering artificial intelligence researcher who aided in the creation of ImageNet and other computing advancements.<\/p>\n

The 150-MW Project Gladys is being developed in southeast Texas alongside a 226-MW wind farm. Gladys, which is still in the land acquisition, power and interconnection contract phase, is named after mathematician Dr. Gladys West, a pioneer in geospatial modeling.<\/p>\n

\u201cGetting 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,\u201d said John Belizaire, CEO of Soluna. \u201cThis means we may be able to effectively displace nearly 48 million metric tons of CO\u2082<\/a>, 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

The rise of AI and cloud-based hyperscale computing is a challenge both for digital infrastructure and power generation providers<\/a>. Some estimates forecast another 125 GW in data computing load coming online by the early 2030s, while utilities are grappling with outdated transmission systems badly in need of massive capital investment, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers.<\/p>\n

Several solutions to that dilemma include microgrids<\/a>, co-located utility and off-grid power, which numerous energy and data center developers are pursuing. Soluna\u2019s website says it seeks to revitalize \u201cstranded\u201d renewable energy assets to power new data computing.<\/p>\n

Soluna has been working with Texas entities such as grid operator Electric Reliability Council of Texas in the past year. Some of its other developments include Projects Kati and Rosa.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s announced intent is focused on achieving at least close to a net-zero emissions impact with its AI computing and bitcoin mining objectives. Both are extremely energy-intensive computing models<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Among Soluna\u2019s board members include leadership from BrightHub, National Grid PLC, Brookstone Partners and Greenspar.x. Among its financial backers on projects include Spring Lane Capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 100-MW Project Fei is going to be built near a 240-MW solar power farm in northern Texas.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[49,48,285,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-103780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-computing","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}