A massive new AI data center is breathing life into the small community, bringing construction jobs, new tax revenue, and the prospect of long-term investment to a town that had largely been overlooked by the modern economy. A data center came to a dying North Dakota town. The data center haters should explain. However, since 2022, where Applied Digital has been building the Polaris Forge 1 project, an approximately $11 billion, 2.5-million-square-foot, 400-megawatt data center, the town is being revitalized. AdvertisementAnd yet, opposition to these AI data centers remains widespread, pervading both the Left and the Right, and even Texas has placed a moratorium on approving new data center construction.