'Project Annie': A 75 MW Solar-Powered Data Center Proposed Beside the Tyson Nick Solar Farm Near Paris

Soluna Holdings announced Project Annie in May 2025 as the company's first solar-powered data center site: a 75 MW facility co-located with a 114 MW solar farm adjacent to the Tyson Nick Solar Project near Paris. Industry trackers Compute Atlas and DataCenterMap still list the project as proposed or planned as of late 2026, which makes it one of several large digital-infrastructure projects queued up around Lamar County rather than a completed build.

The project's defining feature is that the data center and the generation sit on the same site. Pairing the load directly with the solar farm is a response to grid constraints and to the economics of power purchase agreements, and it is the model Soluna says it intends to repeat. For Lamar County, the proposal matters less for whether this exact 75 MW comes online than for what it confirms about the region's position in the Texas data center map: the county ranks among the most active power interconnection queues in the state.

The queue and the pause

WattStreet's September 2026 count put Lamar County at 6.1 GW of power interconnection requests queued across 24 active projects, with two already energized, a figure this journal covered in the Field Note on the data center queue. In August 2026, Governor Greg Abbott called for a state audit and a pause on data center interconnections in the ERCOT queue while the grid is reviewed, a measure that affects new permits across Texas, including Lamar County's backlog.

The pause is regulatory, not economic: it does not cancel queued requests, and it does not change the underlying demand for computing capacity in North Texas. For landowners and commercial investors, the practical read is that the county's land position near cheap power, solar resources, and transportation still holds value, with delivery timelines now depending in part on ERCOT's review of the interconnection queue.

What it means for commercial property near Paris

Data center plans add an industrial-demand layer to the commercial picture without directly bidding on the kind of flex buildings that serve local tenants. Their economic effect is broader: construction payrolls, utility work, and support services ripple through the market, and each announced project extends the county's runway of development news that site selectors and lenders notice. That backdrop supports everything from hotel demand to retail sales tax, and it keeps the region's commercial fundamentals on an upward slope while the interconnection question resolves.

For 1905 E Price St, the relevance is indirect but supports the thesis. The property offers a centrally located, 11,000+ square foot flex building with 12 private rooms with full baths, office space, a commercial kitchen, and dual road frontage, the kind of move-in-ready commercial space that a growing market needs as support businesses land in advance of larger industrial projects.