How much power does Applied Digital / Ellendale Data Center use?

Applied Digital / Ellendale Data Center has a reported power capacity of 600 MW across roughly 2,706,035 square feet.

Has Applied Digital / Ellendale Data Center had environmental violations?

As of the latest EPA ECHO sync, no enforcement actions are on record for Applied Digital / Ellendale Data Center.

Where is Applied Digital / Ellendale Data Center located?

Applied Digital / Ellendale Data Center is in Dickey County, ND.

Operating

Applied Digital / Ellendale Data Center

Q: What do data center tax breaks cost in North Dakota?

North Dakota reported $19.4M in Qualified Data Center sales/use tax exemption for enterprise IT equipment & computer software (N.D.C.C. § 57-39.2-04.17) for FY2024 (North Dakota Legislative Council / Office of State Tax Commissioner (testimony)). That is a statewide program figure, not attributable to one site.

Dickey County, ND

Source: OpenStreetMap

Applied Digital / Ellendale Data Center is an operating data center in Dickey County, ND. DataCentersExposed has documented 600 MW of reported power capacity and a 2,706,035 sq ft footprint at this site.

Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 15, 2026

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Power

600 MW

Footprint

2,706,035 sq ft

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Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

source: link

600 MW energy use, eventually 1 GW with future expansion

In the news

source: GDELT

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.

Statewide cost of this incentive

North Dakota reported $19.4M in Qualified Data Center sales/use tax exemption for enterprise IT equipment & computer software (N.D.C.C. § 57-39.2-04.17) for FY2024 (North Dakota Legislative Council / Office of State Tax Commissioner (testimony)). Program-wide, not attributable to this site.

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Water use

Modeled estimate~8.8M gpd

Direct (onsite cooling)

~3.7M gpd

Indirect (its electricity)

~5.2M gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 600 MW (disclosed IT power): 1.2 L/kWh cooling (cool climate) + 0.45 gal/kWh embedded in US grid average. How we estimate. Have a utility document? Send it and we'll replace this with the real figure.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow

PM10

Good

PM2.5

Good

Air Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Aberdeen), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023

Median household income

$61.8K

People of color

10%

Below poverty

11%

Tract population

1,339

Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, Ellendale High Virtual Academy in Ellendale, is 2.5 mi from this site (6 students).

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

Hearings timeline

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.