
Before Your Town Signs a Data-Center Deal, Ask Who Actually Pays the Rent
August 25, 2026
Data centers can bring enormous economic benefits to small communities. They can also create a new kind of risk that many towns are not used to managing. Ellendale, North Dakota, is a good example. Following the arrival of an Applied Digital data-center campus, the town of roughly 1,100 people has seen sales-tax revenue jump from […]







