ELLENDALE, N.D. — The foundations for a massive data center operation have been laid in Ellendale, and the town’s 1,100 residents are set to have a new neighbor after an artificial intelligence company signed on as one of the first tenants to occupy the freshly built campus.

On Monday, June 2, Applied Digital, a company that builds data center infrastructure, announced it will be leasing out two of its “high-performance computing" facilities in Ellendale for $7 billion over the next 15 years to an artificial intelligence company called CoreWeave.

The term “data center” is generally used to describe facilities lined top to bottom with powerful computers that store, process and transmit digital information. They are used for a variety of services, from cryptocurrency mining to cloud comput

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