WILLACY COUNTY, Texas (Texas Tribune) — Scattered across the acres of open fields, dozens of wind turbines stood tall one morning last month, some moved their blades with the wind as designed. Others didn’t move at all.

The inactivity at the Las Majadas Wind project was by design. This set of windmills in the Rio Grande Valley were generating more power than could be used. Now one company has a plan to bring those turbines to life.

Soluna Holdings, a data center developer focused on using renewable energy, broke ground on its data center here that will be used to manage data for Bitcoin hosting and artificial intelligence. Data centers have sprung up across the state, housing servers and infrastructure that store and process our online activity. Their growth has been spurred, in part, by

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