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The “Done Deal”

Above: Voices of Harwood - From left to right: Mark Coolidge, Nancy Coolidge, Mike Swartz, Amanda Swartz, and Eric Sinner. After city officials raced to approve a hyperscale data center in their town without public input, a small community in North Dakota didn’t roll over. They organized. By Ted Brewer, WORC communications director On August 18, 2025, Applied Digital publicly announced plans to build a $3 billion, 280-megawatt hyperscale data…