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Aerial rendering of a large white-roofed data center building surrounded by green fields, ponds, and electrical equipment.

A rendering of Applied Digital's Polaris Forge 2 campus near Harwood, ND. Rendering: Applied Digital.

Harwood, ND welcomes AI investment with developer-funded power upgrades and low-water cooling

Utilities say the developer will pay for needed electrical infrastructure improvements. Closed-loop cooling will eliminate consumptive water use for equipment cooling, with other water consumption expected below one household’s use per building.

November 6, 2026

Ground-level view of a large gray Amazon Web Services data center building with rooftop equipment, behind a black fence at the edge of a grassy slope with young trees, in Ashburn, Virginia.

An Amazon Web Services data center in Ashburn, Loudoun County, Virginia, 2020. Photo: Vahurzpu / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped and resized from the original; this version is shared under the same license.

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Loudoun County, VA’s ‘Data Center Alley’ brings in about 40% of tax revenue on about 3% of its land

Those are the figures cited by Buddy Rizer, Loudoun’s economic development chief. The county puts FY2026 data center property tax revenue at about $1.2 billion, helping fund public services while creating a budget dependence it has to manage.

November 6, 2026