Harwood ND AI business

[7mmMag]

Applied Digital has very few employees that live in Ellendale from my understanding. Most of them are commuting from Aberdeen and Jamestown.

Because they can't find housing in Ellendale and if they do the price is through the roof. The housing market exploded in Ellendale due to the data center and now its trickling to the surrounding communities.

 

[Jiffy]

Yep

 

[wslayer]

Don't need to pay for any AI bull crap, my little pee brain is already jammed full enough of the knowledge that I need to get by. Just saying
I vote No. . . (Like I have any say in the matter )

 

[Davy Crockett]

Don't need to pay for any AI bull crap, my little pee brain is already jammed full enough of the knowledge that I need to get by. Just saying
I vote No. . . (Like I have any say in the matter )

Same here but I'm afraid that reality is, that it's coming whether we are ready for it or not.

 

[Davy Crockett]

Just nuts though how unorganized this has been since the news hit the street and the press releases started.

 

[Pheasant 54]

It only gets better now Fargo wants to annex that land . Good old Minn-Fargo

 

[lunkerslayer]

If this place is realistically talking about a water crisis whats the outcome for one in Harwood
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/0...-due-to-data-centers-powering-ai-study-warns/

 

[Davy Crockett]

Harwood they say is supposedly a closed loop cooling system so won't use much water but I haven't trusted much about what Iv'e read about the Harwood project so far.

 

[Rut2much]

These sure seem like an ideal concept the left would totally get paid to protest against

 

[johnr]

https://www.livescience.com/planet-...sing-global-temperatures-how-is-that-possible

 

[deleted user]

These sure seem like an ideal concept the left would totally get paid to protest against

These ai centers are in a great spot politically. Most tech nerds are liberal and most republicans worship money.

 

[Rut2much]

These ai centers are in a great spot politically. Most tech nerds are liberal and most republicans worship money.

Funny/sad how it all works...fight the pipelines to no end but these are just Meh... Anyone not living under a rock and paying attention to it all truly knows who and what's behind all their bs.

 

[Allen]

https://www.livescience.com/planet-...sing-global-temperatures-how-is-that-possible

Technically, Antarctica is largely considered a desert based on the amount of precipitation it gets through the average year. The temps can still be higher, but in years where Antarctica receives an above normal amount of snow, there may not be enough time above freezing temperatures in the warm part of the year to melt off all the snow accumulated during the colder months.

Sometimes, the Devil is in the details, not the headline.


Northernmost Canada is also considered a desert. If, for example, the areas north of the Arctic Circle were to start receiving an extra 20 ft of snow each winter, there's a good chance that would be the recipe for initiating another round of continental glaciation. We intuitively want to link more cold weather with formation of glaciers. However, the actual formula governing glaciation only requires one to just get more snow than what can melt in that areas warm season.

 

[Sluggo]

Technically, Antarctica is largely considered a desert based on the amount of precipitation it gets through the average year. The temps can still be higher, but in years where Antarctica receives an above normal amount of snow, there may not be enough time above freezing temperatures in the warm part of the year to melt off all the snow accumulated during the colder months.

Sometimes, the Devil is in the details, not the headline.


Northernmost Canada is also considered a desert. If, for example, the areas north of the Arctic Circle were to start receiving an extra 20 ft of snow each winter, there's a good chance that would be the recipe for initiating another round of continental glaciation. We intuitively want to link more cold weather with formation of glaciers. However, the actual formula governing glaciation only requires one to just get more snow than what can melt in that areas warm season.

Nerd

Interesting tho.

 

[Allen]

Nerd

Interesting tho.

Yep, at one point I had to read more about this topic than was reasonable.

 

[lunkerslayer]

https://kfgo.com/2025/08/29/listen-mayors-of-fargo-harwood-spar-over-3b-ai-data-center-project/

 

[Duckslayer100]

https://kfgo.com/2025/08/29/listen-mayors-of-fargo-harwood-spar-over-3b-ai-data-center-project/

I listened to that and almost pulled over just to catch the whole bit. Mahoney sure comes off as a raging putz. Which, I guess, fits the bill.

 

[PrairieGhost]

I have not read any o f this thread yet, so bear with me if you have already covered this. I think AI is going to destroy dark humor and take serious people just blowing steam.

 

[Obi-Wan]

Someone's pockets are quite a bit fuller today

https://kfgo.com/2025/09/03/harwood-city-council-approves-rezoning-land-for-3b-data-center/

 

[camper]

Someone's pockets are quite a bit fuller today

https://kfgo.com/2025/09/03/harwood-city-council-approves-rezoning-land-for-3b-data-center/

Always a conspiracy. You do know someone is watching you, don’t you?