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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jer79" data-source="post: 498252" data-attributes="member: 573">Sounds like from other sources i found, the aberdeen water is also being used for construction purposes, water trucks possibly and whatever... I believe there is a large mancamp there and maybe ellendale put a cap on their usage?  I dont know but, could it be that they gotta  get it somewhere else for now because they would exceed a limit.why would the water come from aberdeen? and not ellendale or on site?<h4>Copilot said:</h4>There are a few plausible reasons, and the publicly reported facts point more toward water quality and availability than simple proximity.What has been reported is that Aberdeen sold more than 1 million gallons of treated municipal water to the Applied Digital project, and local Ellendale officials said the water was being used for the campus cooling system commissioning and fill process. Those reports do not explicitly state why Aberdeen was chosen over Ellendale.The likely reasons are:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Treated water quality<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Large closed-loop cooling systems typically require very clean water to avoid corrosion, mineral scaling, and biological growth.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Municipal water systems can often deliver water with known and consistent chemistry.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If Aberdeen could provide the required specifications in large volumes, it may have been more attractive than local sources.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Small-town system limitations<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ellendale is a small community.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Drawing hundreds of thousands or millions of gallons quickly from a local municipal system could place stress on local infrastructure, storage, or fire protection reserves.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Purchasing from a larger municipal system avoids that issue.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Timing during construction<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The water was reportedly trucked during construction and commissioning.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It may have been faster to purchase bulk loads from an available supplier than to build and permit temporary on-site treatment systems.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">On-site well water may require treatment<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Groundwater is often available in southeast North Dakota, but cooling-system-grade water may require extensive treatment to remove hardness, iron, manganese, or other dissolved minerals.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Depending on the chemistry, buying treated municipal water can be cheaper than treating large volumes of raw groundwater.</li> </ul></li> </ol>An interesting point is that if the Ellendale campus truly operates as the closed-loop, waterless system that Applied Digital and BASX have described, then the million-plus gallons trucked from Aberdeen would represent mostly an initial fill and commissioning expense, not a recurring annual need.Looking at it from an engineering perspective, I'd be surprised if the reason was simply "Ellendale doesn't have enough water." More likely, the project needed a large volume of known-quality treated water delivered on a specific schedule, and Aberdeen was willing and able to supply it.What's especially interesting is that if the campus eventually contains roughly 1 million gallons of coolant inventory, the Aberdeen deliveries may actually give us a rough clue about the scale of the cooling system, even though neither Applied Digital nor the permitting documents I've found publicly disclose the final coolant volume.<h2><a href="https://fargoinc.com/applied-digital-north-dakota-answers-the-hard-questions?fbclid=IwY2xjawUqef1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mAWJyaWQRMTBmQWpyOVQxY2xSWm14aEtzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe40GKLhJvbkihpm2GweLSOhjnqIBkndtk5w_gDsZ_UnzLhgTYXq72g0WXLXw_aem_ToibxK0nUQ8I82BE0BDEMg" target="_blank">https://fargoinc.com/applied-digital-north-dakota-answers-the-hard-questions?fbclid=IwY2xjawUqef1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mAWJyaWQRMTBmQWpyOVQxY2xSWm14aEtzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe40GKLhJvbkihpm2GweLSOhjnqIBkndtk5w_gDsZ_UnzLhgTYXq72g0WXLXw_aem_ToibxK0nUQ8I82BE0BDEMg</a></h2></blockquote>

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