ELLENDALE, N.D. (KVRR) – The CEO of Applied Digital says the company is working to address concerns about the destruction of some gravel roads caused by vehicles connected to the construction of an AI data center in Ellendale. Authorities say trucks and equipment are causing severe damage to some county roads and need to be rebuilt. Several county roads and…
Commissioners Jill Kringstad, right, and Randy Christmann listen to testimony April 2, 2026, at a Public Service Commission hearing in Fargo, North Dakota. (Photo by Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — North Dakota Public Service Commission on Wednesday approved a temporary variance allowing preliminary construction activities to proceed for power projects to serve a data center north…
Minnkota Power executive Brendan Kennelly speaks with an attendee of a Public Service Commission hearing in Fargo, North Dakota on a powerline project north of the city. (Photo by Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor)FARGO (North Dakota Monitor) — The cost of the powerline and substation needed by a data center north of Fargo has risen from $75 million to $110 million,…
Applied Digital, a digital infrastructure company specializing in data centers, is expanding its campus in Ellendale, North Dakota, to three buildings and up to 530 MW of energy demand. (Photo courtesy of Applied Digital)ELLENDALE, N.D. — Don Flaherty worries about the future of the data center industry “every single day.” During his four years as mayor of Ellendale, North Dakota,…
HARWOOD, N.D. — A dozen or so anti-ICE protestors demonstrated at the site of a planned $3 billion AI data center after multiple reports of ICE enforcement sightings Monday in the metro. That’s after the metro-based activist group said online they were responding to rumors Vice President J.D. Vance had arrived in Fargo and would be touring the data center…
ELLENDALE, N.D. (KVRR) – Ellendale Mayor Don Flaherty has lived in the city for almost three decades. He says he saw the harmful effects of population loss firsthand. So, when tech company Applied Digital began buying up land for blockchain facilities and data centers – he welcomed them with open arms. “With this happening, I can honestly see that Ellendale…
BECKER, MN — Agreements between Google and Xcel Energy to provide electricity for a $600 million data center in Becker, Minnesota have been approved. Google is weighing plans to build the center on land next to Xcel’s Sherco power plant. Becker Mayor Tracy Bertram told the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission Tuesday the project would help her community transition away from a…
