Tuesday Roundup: WhiteFiber, Applied Digital, Utopia Fiber

Two bits of HPC data center news, and one FTTH project completion:

WhiteFiber has acquired a a 96-acre, 1M-square-foot industrial property in Madison, North Carolina, a half hour north of the city of Greensboro and just south of the Virginia border. The division of Bit Digital, which got its start in bitcoin mining, plans to build a 200MW HPC data center campus on the site, with the first phase coming online by the end of the year. They have a capacity agreement already in place with Duke Energy for 99MW, a quarter of which will be delivered in September.

Applied Digital has picked up two major leases out in the upper Midwest. The AI Hyperscale provider CoreWeave will be leasing some 250MW of critical IT load at the company’s Ellendale campus in North Dakota over a span of 15 years. The first 100MW data center should be ready by Q4 of this year, and the other 150MW would come online in 2026. The deal, worth some $7B in revenue over that time period, includes an option for an additional 150MW for further expansion. Applied Digital’s plans call for scaling the campus up to a gigawatt over time.

And Utopia Fiber and Bountiful City have completed an open-access fiber build out in Utah almost a year ahead of schedule. The public/private partnership’s fiber footprint to 13,553 homes and 2,987 businesses and began in late May of 2023 with a target schedule of 36 months. Bountiful is just north of Salt Lake City along I-15, and the open access network allows residents and businesses to choose from 14 ISPs.

 

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