company officials
Applied Digital held a town hall meeting on its Harwood data center in August 2025 after construction plans were finished
Data centers in Harwood area, North Dakota
Harwood area has 1 data center on the record; it is proposed. No city rule about data centers is on the record for Harwood area yet. Oliver County's own decisions are on the Oliver County page.
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The data center in Harwood area
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Applied Digital North Dakota (Oliver County third data center)
Harwood area, Oliver County · Applied Digital
Latest, reported September 11, 2026: Applied Digital signed a 2.4 billion dollar design and build agreement with Base Electron datacenters.economictimes.indiatimes.com local outlet
- Land
- Not disclosed
- Power
- Not disclosed
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Tenant
- Not disclosed
Where
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1 data center in Harwood area: proposed. A dashed edge means the exact site is not in the public record; every pin here marks a town or the county.
What happened
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· Applied Digital North Dakota (Oliver County third data center)
Now reported: Applied Digital is building 3 billion dollar data center on 160 acres near Harwood inforum.com local outlet
What was said
Civic West hosting Fire Hall Chat on September 17 at 7 p.m. to discuss data center benefits and drawbacks with residents and Applied Digital representative
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Every North Dakota statement, by speaker
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Dave Nehring, Applied Digital Director of Local & Regional Affairs
Applied Digital is projected to be the largest property taxpayer in North Dakota by 2028 or 2029, at more than $25 million a year
Don Flaherty
Ellendale Mayor predicted population growth of 400 to 600 people over the next five years
Ellendale Mayor Don Flaherty predicted the Applied Digital data center will bring 300 to 350 full time employees to the small town
Don Flaherty, Ellendale Mayor
Ellendale's taxable value at the end of 2025 was $3.5 million, expected to grow more than tenfold
Randy Christmann
Public service commission chair said agency could develop a decommissioning program for data centers modeled on coal mine reclamation and wind farm rules
Vern Thompson, Agriculture Commissioner candidate, declared data centers North Dakota's number one problem
Agriculture Commissioner candidate
Thompson proposed one year moratorium on data centers to allow ordinances to be developed
Disclosed figures
nothing disclosed by 1 record
Power, water, jobs and tax
| Figure | Disclosed total | Disclosed | Not disclosed | Basis | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record | |
| Water, stated per day | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record | |
| Water, stated per year | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record | |
| Permanent jobs | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record | |
| Tax each year | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record |
Summed only where a record disclosed the figure; a record with no figure adds nothing and is counted as not disclosed. Water is summed per day and per year separately, as the sources stated it, and never converted. A tax claim given as a range is summed at both ends.
By what the facilities are for
| Use | Records | Power | Water | Jobs | Tax each year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not disclosed | 1 | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Not disclosed: power, water, jobs, tax each year |
A record that lists several uses counts once under each. Each cell is the sum over the records with that use, disclosed rows only.
What the facilities are for
No source on file states what any of the 1 tracked facility in Harwood area is for.
How the facilities are cooled
No source on file states how any of the 1 tracked facility in Harwood area is cooled.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Data centers in Harwood area, Oliver County, North Dakota", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/nd/oliver-county/harwood-area, updated September 25, 2026.
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Data Center Record, "Data center records in Harwood area, Oliver County, North Dakota", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/nd/oliver-county/harwood-area. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
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For researchers
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- Census GEOID
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- Scale word
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