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(North Dakota Monitor) – Don Flaherty worries about the future of the data center industry “every single day.”
During his four years as mayor of Ellendale, North Dakota, the town has welcomed a growing data center campus from Dallas-based Applied Digital.
If the company goes belly up, so could the town.
“Could it blow up in my face?” Flaherty said. “Absolutely.”
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