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Property tax payments of $24 million annually by 2029

Company: Applied Digital

Subject kind
guidance
Statement date
2026-08-31
Promised by
2029-12-31
Promised amount
24.0 Million USD
Current status
stated

The claim, verbatim

Applied Digital estimates it will pay nearly $24 million per year in property taxes by 2029 across its four facilities in Ellendale, Harwood, Oliver County, and Stutsman County

Source (primary)

Port: Data center company Applied Digital expects to be one of the largest taxpayers in North Dakota history - McKenzie County Farmer (-, news_article)
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Quote: “by 2029, they will be paying nearly $24 million per year in property taxes at their four facilities in the state in Ellendale, Harwood, Oliver County and Stutsman County”

How we checked this

Attempted on September 15, 2026. We could not read enough of the cited source to check this claim.

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What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.watfordcitynd.com/opinion/columns/port-data-center-company-applied-digital-expects-to-be-one-of-the-largest-taxpayers-in-north-dakota-history) in full (9,740 characters, retrieved September 2, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.

Additional evidence

confirms Port: Data center company Applied Digital expects to be one of the largest taxpayers in North Dakota history - McKenzie County Farmer

Quote: “by 2029, they will be paying nearly $24 million per year in property taxes at their four facilities in the state in Ellendale, Harwood, Oliver County and Stutsman County”

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