Soluna Holdings, Inc. has acquired a 397-acre development site near Silverton, Texas to build Project Dorothy 3, a renewable-first AI and high-performance computing data center campus with a potential capacity of up to 300MW. The land purchase closed August 24, 2026, as first reported by Investing.com and covered by Low Voltage Nation, Tech & Business, and Traded.

The site sits in Briscoe County in the Texas Panhandle, directly adjacent to Soluna's existing Dorothy 1 and Dorothy 2 projects and across from the substation serving the company's own Briscoe Wind Farm. The parcel was sized above the roughly 300 acres initially described to preserve room for future expansion.

No building count, square footage, construction start, first-power date, or named tenants have been disclosed. The project is currently in planning and technical development, with master planning, environmental and water studies, fiber studies, ERCOT integration work, and evaluation of onsite gas generation all underway.

Soluna is a renewable-first compute infrastructure company that co-locates data center capacity with owned or adjacent clean power assets. Its business model is built around behind-the-meter generation: rather than competing for scarce grid capacity at premium prices, Soluna acquires or develops wind and solar assets and then builds compute load directly against that generation. The company purchased the 150MW Briscoe Wind Farm for $53 million in April 2026, giving it owned generation capacity that now anchors the entire Dorothy campus strategy in Briscoe County.

Briscoe County is defined by agriculture and wind energy, not by heavy industry or a deep trades bench. Silverton is the small county seat of a sparsely populated Panhandle county, and there is no established data center construction labor pool within the county itself. That means Dorothy 3 will pull its workforce from regional trades rather than a large local union hall. Lubbock, roughly 60 to 70 miles away, is the nearest significant metro labor pool and brings meaningful experience in power infrastructure, commercial construction, and institutional projects. Amarillo provides a secondary draw. Both metros are already competing for high-voltage electricians, civil crews, and MEP trades through ongoing wind-farm construction, grid and transmission work, and institutional development across the Panhandle.

The sharpest staffing challenge on this site is not simply volume. It is a conversion problem. The Panhandle wind industry produces a steady rotation of high-voltage and controls specialists who move from project to project across the region. Those workers already know the Briscoe substation environment, the ERCOT interconnect protocols, and the physical conditions of this specific geography. The priority for any contractor awarded Dorothy 3 work should be identifying and locking in that niche talent pool before competing Panhandle wind and transmission projects absorb it. Soluna's multi-project campus structure, with Dorothy 1, 2, and 3 on adjacent parcels, creates a rare opportunity to offer longer-term continuity of work to those specialists rather than the typical project-to-project churn, which is a recruiting lever that a well-positioned staffing partner can use aggressively.

We break down roles, pay bands, and sourcing strategy in our guide to hiring data center talent in Briscoe County, TX. Sources: Investing.com, which first reported the acquisition, and Low Voltage Nation, Tech & Business, and Traded.