Applied Digital announces groundbreaking of HPC facility in North Dakota

Applied Digital announced the groundbreaking of its latest specialized processing center, a five-megawatt facility next to the Company’s currently operating 100-MW hosting facility in Jamestown, North Dakota. This separate and unique building, designed and purpose-built for Graphics Processing Units, will sit separate from the Company’s current buildings and plans to host more traditional high performance computing, HPC, applications, such as natural language processing, machine learning,and additional HPC developments. "Our greatest asset is our ultra-low-cost-power and the ability to build near the source of power in moreremote locations," said Applied Digital Chairman and CEO, Wes Cummins. "In the past, datacenters were built to support high speed, ultra-low latency communications applications, but these new HPC applications such as machine learning, artificial intelligence and others require a large amount of compute power rather than ultra-low latency communications. Thismeans the digital infrastructure should be built differently and Applied Digital’shomogenous style datacenterscan streamline and significantly lower the cost for running these applications."