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In this episode of Clean Integration, Soluna CEO John Belizaire speaks with Metrobloks CEO Ernest Popescu about the joint venture to develop Project Kati 2, a 100+ MW AI and high-performance computing campus in Southeast Texas.
They discuss how AI is reshaping data center development, why power access has become the industry’s biggest bottleneck, and what it takes to build AI-ready infrastructure designed for rapidly evolving workloads.
Together, they discuss:
- The partnership between Soluna and Metrobloks to develop Project Kati 2
- Why power availability is now the primary constraint for AI infrastructure
- How AI workloads are changing where and how data centers are built
- What “AI-ready infrastructure” means for next-generation deployments
- Why speed to power and flexible design are becoming critical advantages

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