Applied Digital announces groundbreaking of facility in North Dakota

Applied Digital Corporation announced the groundbreaking of its first 100 megawatt high-performance compute facility in Ellendale, North Dakota. This facility is designed and purpose-built for Artificial Intelligence workloads such as generative AI, natural language processing, machine learning, rendering, and traditional HPC applications. The new 342,000-square-foot building will provide ultralow cost and highly efficient liquid-cooled infrastructure for HPC applications. Applied Digital’s unique datacenter design offers multi-story datacenter buildings that leverage high-density racks to accommodate nearly 50,000 of Nvidia’s H100 SXM class GPUs in a single parallel compute cluster.