Garden City datacenter outage duration
Company: Applied Digital - Project: Garden City
What the later record shows
Delivered late · happened February 23, 2024
The outage was expected to last three days, ending around February 17, but re-energizing began on February 23, 2024. That makes the outage about nine days.
“No electrical work was required or performed at the Company’s facility. The Company currently estimates that the impact of this downtime on the Company’s revenues will be material”
2024-02-28 · Applied Digital 8-K filed 2024-02-29 View cached copy (2026-08-31)Live source ↗
“On February 23, 2024, we began re-energizing our Garden City facility, which was de-energized on February 14, 2024”
2024-07-18 · Applied Digital 8-K filed 2024-07-19 View cached copy (2026-08-31)Live source ↗
Checked October 9, 2026 against filings, releases and reporting published after the claim was made. Quotes are verbatim from the linked documents.
The claim, verbatim
The Garden City datacenter facility was de-energized on February 14, 2024 to accommodate Wind Energy Transmission of Texas's maintenance work on a nearby transmission switching station, with the outage expected to last three days.
Source (primary)
Applied Digital 8-K filed 2024-02-15 (SEC EDGAR, sec_filing)
View cached copy (2026-08-31)Live source ↗
Quote: “On February 14, 2024, the Company's Garden City facility was de-energized to accommodate WETT's maintenance work safely...The outage is currently expected to last three days”
How we checked this
Checked on October 10, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The filing states that WETT would perform maintenance on a nearby transmission switching station, that the Garden City facility was de-energized on February 14, 2024 to accommodate it, and that the outage was expected to last three days.
Confirmed in the source:
- The Garden City datacenter facility was de-energized on February 14, 2024
- The de-energization was to accommodate Wind Energy Transmission of Texas (WETT) maintenance work
- The maintenance work was on a nearby transmission switching station
- The outage was expected to last three days
What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1144879/000114487924000037/apld-20240214.htm) in full (6,150 characters, retrieved August 31, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Applied Digital 8-K filed 2024-02-15
Quote: “On February 14, 2024, the Company's Garden City facility was de-energized to accommodate WETT's maintenance work safely...The outage is currently expected to last three days”
confirms Applied Digital 8-K filed 2024-02-29
Quote: “No electrical work was required or performed at the Company’s facility. The Company currently estimates that the impact of this downtime on the Company’s revenues will be material”
confirms Applied Digital 8-K filed 2024-07-19
Quote: “On February 23, 2024, we began re-energizing our Garden City facility, which was de-energized on February 14, 2024”