BISMARCK — A fleet of artificial intelligence data centers packed into shipping containers is slated for deployment to North Dakota’s oil patch.

North Dakota-based Bakken Energy has partnered with Armada, a company specializing in bringing artificial intelligence — both its computation power and infrastructure — to industries based in remote parts of the country through small-scale, portable data centers.

“From the drilling and production, to the pipelining, to the safety attributes, to the methane leakages — all of these things are extraordinarily data-intensive,” said Bakken Energy co-founder Curt Launer. “Bringing the data processing into the field is a very big plus.”

Varying in size from 20 to 40 feet long, the pre-fabricated units lined with high-powered computers are hauled to

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