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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-26-047846"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SLNH"
cik: "0000064463"
company_name: "Soluna Holdings, Inc"
filed_at: "2026-10-21T11:30:19+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-10-21T11:35:09.293282+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Soluna, Applied Digital form 51/49 JV for 50 MW AI data center at Texas Dorothy 3 site

## Summary
- Applied Digital (APLD) to hold 51% and Soluna (SLNH) 49% of Project Company; Soluna contributes Dorothy 3 land and power assets, Applied supplies capital.
- Planned 50 MW Phase 1 critical IT data center for AI/HPC near Silverton, Briscoe County, Texas, drawing power from the 150 MW Briscoe Wind farm and the grid.
- ChronoScale (CHRN), majority-owned by Applied, signed a non-binding LOI to lease the facility; definitive lease terms not yet agreed.
- Closing targeted by end of calendar year 2026, subject to Briscoe County tax abatement approval, title policies, corporate approvals, operating agreement, and power/lease pacts.
- CEO John Belizaire said 'the constraint in AI is energy access, not chips,' citing Soluna's strategy of bringing load to generation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-26-047846
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SLNH
- cik: 0000064463
- company_name: Soluna Holdings, Inc
- filed_at: 2026-10-21T11:30:19+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/64463/000149315226047846/0001493152-26-047846-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/64463/000149315226047846/form8-k.htm

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