Paul Mattys, president and CEO of Cass County Electric Cooperative, on North Dakota’s growing role in powering the data center industry. Photo courtesy of The North Dakota Soybean Grower Magazine, June 2026 edition.
Newly planted crops aren’t the only things sprouting in North Dakota this year. The state has become fertile ground for data centers: buildings that house internet technology infrastructure, including computer servers, storage systems, and other computing and networking equipment.As the nation’s appetite and demand for computing capacity grows, so too do the plans for data centers....
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