Data Centers

The Unsung Heroes of Data Centers: Industrial Control Panels

In the high-tech world of data centers—where petabytes of data flow every second and uptime is measured in milliseconds—there’s a quiet, powerful force working behind the scenes: industrial control panels. While servers and switches often steal the spotlight, control panels are the backbone that keeps the entire facility running safely, efficiently, and reliably. Powering the…

Smart Control Panels Are Powering the Backbone of AI!

The AI Boom Is Fueling Data Center Growth — And Smart Control Panels Are Powering the Backbone As artificial intelligence continues to revolutionize industries—from finance and healthcare to manufacturing and logistics—the demand for data processing power has exploded. At the heart of this digital transformation lies the modern data center: a complex, high-density environment that…

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…

AI Is Forcing a Rethink of Data Center Infrastructure at Every Level

The data center industry is being redefined by AI’s demand for faster, denser, and more scalable infrastructure. According to McKinsey, average rack power densities have more than doubled in just two years. It went from approximately 8 kW to 17 kW, and is expected to hit 30 kW by 2027. Global data center power demand is projected…

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…

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

Aligned Data Centers Leads with a Strong Workplace Safety Culture

Prioritizing worker safety in data centers proves essential as digital infrastructure becomes increasingly critical to modern operations

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

Sustainability and Innovation in the Data Center Industry: Insights from Rob Ussher

Data center operators are rebalancing operational demands with environmental accountability through efficiency-driven innovation

Designing Sustainable and Scalable Data Centers for the AI Revolution

Building the cooling and energy infrastructure required to power the next generation of AI without breaking environmental commitments

Applied Digital’s Ellendale AI Data Center: Pioneering the Future of Accelerated AI Computing in North Dakota

A 363,000-square-foot North Dakota facility sets new standards for powering the next generation of AI workloads at massive scale

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 Pioneering the Next Generation of High-Performance Computing Data Centers

AI and HPC demand is reshaping how companies build the specialized infrastructure required to power next-generation computing workloads

Applied Digital Redefines Modern Computing with Unmatched Hosting Power for NVIDIA H100 Servers

High-power data centers are becoming essential infrastructure as enterprises race to deploy advanced AI workloads at scale