The Generative AI Data Center Market was valued at USD 6584 Million in the year 2024 and is projected to reach a revised size of USD 19930 Million by 2031, growing at a CAGR of 17.9% during the forecast period.

DALLAS. TX (North Dakota Monitor) – Applied Digital, the company operating data centers near Ellendale and Jamestown, on Monday announced plans to build a $3 billion data center at Harwood, north of Fargo. Applied Digital plans to break ground in September on what it calls Polaris Forge 2, a 280-megawatt artificial intelligence computing center.

Building the infrastructure for generative AI like Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot could spark local fights for energy.

China is an important market for Nvidia, generating $17.1 billion in fiscal 2025 revenue, or 13.1% of total revenue. However, Nvidia and AMD ( AMD) recently agreed to pay the U.S. government 15% of Chinese revenue as part of a deal to secure export licenses to China.

With data centers buying up electricity, residential customers are digging deep to make payments. “The challenge,” said a source, “is when the demand for the product increases really fast, the

Data centers make up significant proportions of both companies’ water use. In 2023, Meta consumed 813 million gallons of water globally (3.1 billion liters) — 95% of which, 776 million gallons (2.9 billion liters), was used by data centers.

While data centers generate tax revenues and create jobs, they're also straining the electrical grid and gulping water.

Vantage Data Centers will invest more than $25B to develop a 1.4-gigawatt data center campus totaling 3.7M SF in rural Shackelford County, Texas.

The rollout was even messy enough to spill into betting markets. One 27-year-old day trader, Foster McCoy, pocketed $10,000 in just a few hours by wagering that Google’s Gemini would beat GPT-5 in a popularity contest.