The Weight of Progress: Applied Digital’s Ascent Amidst the Data Leviathan

This $3 billion data center campus in North Dakota is no ordinary endeavor; it is a cathedral built for the worship of compute power, designed to harness 280 megawatts of electricity to feed the ever-expanding maw of AI demands. Groundbreaking is set for September, with operations commencing in 2026 and full capacity achieved early in 2027. Yet, should this monument prove insufficient, plans exist for further expansion-a grim acknowledgment that even such vastness may one day be deemed inadequate.








