Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce issued the following announcement.
Applied Blockchain Celebrates opening their new location with a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony!
Applied Blockchain Inc. is co-located with an Otter Tail Power Company substation 7 miles north of Jamestown. The facility will utilize 100 megawatts of capacity with the ability to scale up to 200 megawatts and three more buildings to the south of the current buildings. The facility has 30 full-time employees.
Gov. Burgum spoke to the company’s resilience in cutting-edge technology and bringing it to North Dakota, relating to similar experiences when he started his own tech company in the 1980’s.
“You can’t celebrate a project like this that’s on the cutting edge of innovation unless you’ve got entrepreneurs, unless you have risk-takers, unless you have people that are willing to get out and try to do things with new models in places where people might say, ‘it’ll never work,’ ‘it’s too different, too new,’” Gov. Burgum said. “Whether I’m sad to say, or happy to say, the early parts of my career and trying to build a tech company in North Dakota back in the 80s, there was a lot of naysayers.”
Burgum said high-performance data centers rely on the energy and climate of North Dakota, making it a prime location for future projects of this type.
Businesses qualify for a ribbon-cutting ceremony if they open, move, remodel, are under new ownership or change their name. For more information, contact Emily Bivens by emailing: director@jamestownchamber.com or call the chamber at 701-252-4830.
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