Ellendale 180 MW hosting facility outage
Company: Applied Digital - Project: Ellendale
The claim, verbatim
The company's 180 MW Ellendale hosting facility had a power outage starting in January 2024. The company attributes the failures to transformers that did not meet industry standards.
Source (primary)
applied-digital 8-K exhibit (apld3q24earningsrelease.htm) (SEC EDGAR (8-K Ex), press_release)
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Quote: “the Company's 180 MW facility in Ellendale, North Dakota experienced a power outage starting in January”
How we checked this
Checked on November 10, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The release reports the 180 MW Ellendale facility's outage starting in January within the quarter ended February 29, 2024, and attributes the failures to substandard transformers.
Confirmed in the source:
- The Ellendale hosting facility is 180 MW
- It experienced a power outage starting in January 2024, during the quarter ended February 29, 2024
- The company determined the failures were due to transformers not meeting industry standards
What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (8-K Ex) (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1144879/000114487924000077/apld3q24earningsrelease.htm) in full (28,454 characters, retrieved November 8, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms applied-digital 8-K exhibit (apld3q24earningsrelease.htm)
Quote: “the Company's 180 MW facility in Ellendale, North Dakota experienced a power outage starting in January”