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Applied Digital Ellendale Hosting Facility
Ellendale, Dickey County, North Dakota · All 9 Applied Digital sites
Applied Digital Ellendale Hosting Facility is an operating crypto mining site in Ellendale, North Dakota (Dickey County), operated by Applied Digital Corporation. The public record puts it at announced September 8, 2022, 180 MW operating.
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Facility record
Operating
- Operator
- Applied Digital Corporation
- Facility type
- Crypto mining
- Location
- Ellendale, Dickey County, ND
- Coordinates
- 46.0027, -98.5270 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- 180 MW operating
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- September 8, 2022
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
Timeline from the record
Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.
- March 7, 2023OperatingFacility energized Source: Applied Digital Corporation
- September 8, 2022Under constructionGroundbreaking Source: Applied Digital Corporation
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of October 26, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Applied Digital Ellendale Hosting Facility in Ellendale, Dickey County, North Dakota appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
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Power and water
Five-year Energy Service Agreement (Sept. 1, 2022) with an unnamed utility partner serving Ellendale in Dickey County.
Notes on the record
180 MW crypto-mining hosting facility (Data Center Hosting business) at Ellendale. It broke ground Sept. 8, 2022 and was energized March 7, 2023. Marathon Digital held up to 276 MW of contracted hosting across Applied Digital's ND sites. The Oct. 2026 earnings release says the 180 MW Ellendale and 106 MW Jamestown hosting facilities operated at full capacity. This is a separate facility from the Polaris Forge 1 AI campus (CoreWeave-leased) in the same town. Reviewer: confirm it is not already folded into the Polaris Forge 1 record. Coordinates are the Ellendale town point.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Cooling method and water use
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- Land area
- How the community has received it
- Which utility serves it
Which document closes each gap
- Cooling method and water use
- The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- Land area
- The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
- Which utility serves it
- The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.
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Other sites within 30 miles
Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.
- Applied Digital Polaris Forge 1 · Ellendale · Applied Digital Corporationunder 1 mile · Operating · 400 MW · Supported
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Applied Digital Ellendale Hosting Facility in Ellendale?
Nothing on record as of October 26, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Applied Digital Ellendale Hosting Facility in Ellendale, Dickey County, North Dakota appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Applied Digital Ellendale Hosting Facility?
No lawsuit over Applied Digital Ellendale Hosting Facility appears in the record we track as of October 26, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does Applied Digital Ellendale Hosting Facility use?
No water withdrawal figure for Applied Digital Ellendale Hosting Facility is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Applied Digital Ellendale Hosting Facility, and how big is it?
Applied Digital Corporation is the operator on record. We hold 9 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 180 MW.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Applied Digital Ellendale Hosting Facility," updated October 26, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/applied-digital-ellendale-hosting-nd.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.1 (October 4, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/applied-digital-ellendale-hosting-nd, retrieved October 29, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.Applied Digital Announces Energizing of Facility in Ellendale, North Dakota · Applied Digital Corporation · retrieved October 26, 2026
- 2.Applied Digital Reports Fiscal First Quarter 2027 Results (Form 8-K Ex. 99.1) · Applied Digital Corporation (SEC EDGAR) · retrieved October 26, 2026
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