AI infrastructure

Global M&A hits $2.8 trillion in H1 2026, and industrial manufacturing is leading the strategic land grab

Mega-deals above $10 billion now account for nearly 50% of global deal volume, an all-time record, as AI infrastructure and grid modernization concentrate capital

Construction tech, HVAC AI, and infrastructure bets signal a maturing venture market in 2026

Venture dollars are flowing into AI infrastructure and built-environment tech, with construction robotics, HVAC quoting, and model-routing startups all closing

Power, Cooling, and Risk: What It Takes to Bring a 100MW AI Data Center Online

The industry knows how to build data centers. What it’s still figuring out is how to turn on AI factories at scale. With facilities now crossing 100 megawatts—far beyond the 5 to 10 megawatt norm of traditional builds—operators are no longer just validating equipment. They’re testing whether entire systems—power, cooling, controls, and the teams behind…

The Next Data Center Bottleneck Isn’t Power or Cooling — It’s People: The Data Center Workforce

With the rapid rise of AI workloads, data centers are being built with higher power density, stricter reliability expectations, and cooling technologies that are evolving faster than most teams can adapt. As a result, these facilities aren’t just getting bigger—they’re becoming harder to operate, harder to staff, and far less forgiving when something goes…

Reflection and What’s Ahead: How Applied Digital Built the AI Factories of Tomorrow

As AI adoption accelerates at an unprecedented pace—ChatGPT alone sees 2.5 billion daily prompts just two and a half years after launch—digital infrastructure is racing to keep up. At the center of this transformation are purpose-built data centers, evolving from air-cooled Bitcoin facilities to liquid-cooled “AI factories” designed to power the next generation of…

Execution at Scale: How Applied Digital Is Powering AI Infrastructure in Ellendale

AI infrastructure is evolving at breakneck speed, and the real challenge is no longer just designing next-generation data centers—it’s executing them at scale. As demand for AI-ready facilities grows, operators must adapt to immense increases in power density, new cooling technologies, and unconventional deployment locations. Power density requirements for AI workloads are pushing the…

Workforce, Housing, and Growth: How Applied Digital Is Revitalizing a Rural Town Through AI Infrastructure

As AI infrastructure spreads beyond tech hubs and into America’s heartland, companies face a new imperative: not just to build facilities—but to build trust, local partnerships, and long-term value for the communities that host them. In Ellendale, North Dakota, Applied Digital’s Polaris Forge 1 campus has become a case study in what rural revitalization…

Applied Digital’s Data Center Design for a 100 MW AI Factory Built from the Ground Up

AI workloads are redefining the limits of data center design and infrastructure. Legacy data centers, built for traditional co-location, cannot handle the density, thermal demands, or power dynamics of accelerated computing. The AI boom has upended the data center sector, forcing a rapid shift to liquid-cooled racks as facilities pivot from sub-10kW racks to…

Applied Digital Ellendale AI Data Center: April 2025 Update

Construction momentum accelerates at this mega-scale AI facility as infrastructure systems take shape ahead of HPC deployment

Data Center Construction Demands Are Surging But Power, Permitting, and Planning Are Holding It Back

The infrastructure race to support AI is exposing critical gaps in power supply, regulatory approval, and workforce availability

NVIDIA GTC 2025 Puts AI Infrastructure in the Spotlight and Applied Digital Delivers

The race to build AI's backbone reveals why data center innovation matters more than the models themselves

Applied Digital Ellendale AI Data Center: February 2025 Update

The data center reaches a critical milestone as its first computing cluster comes online to handle AI and HPC workloads

September 2024 Update on Applied Digital’s Cutting-Edge Ellendale AI Data Center

A 363,000 square-foot AI data center in North Dakota reveals how enterprises are building infrastructure to power next-generation computing demands

Ellendale AI Data Center Construction Update for July 2024

A North Dakota facility is redefining what modern AI infrastructure looks like as construction accelerates toward completion

The Future of Data Centers: Cooling, Power, and ESG with Saqib Ashraf

AI-driven computing demands force data centers to rethink cooling strategies while balancing power consumption and sustainability goals

Applied Digital is Scaling Up Infrastructure to Handle Growing GPU Deployment Needs

The company is racing to build out physical infrastructure capable of supporting the massive power and proximity requirements that modern AI compute demands

Tailored AI Accelerators Pave the Way for an AI Infrastructure Surge

Custom chip designs are becoming essential infrastructure as enterprises demand faster, more efficient AI deployment across industries

Dell PowerEdge Servers for Today’s Most Demanding Workloads

Infrastructure built to handle the exponential growth of AI and edge computing is becoming essential for competitive enterprises