CoreWeave signs megalease at Applied Digital's not-so-little house on the prairie

CoreWeave is headed to North Dakota, where the rent-a-GPU outfit has signed two roughly 15-year lease agreements with Applied Digital for 250 megawatts of capacity, which the datacenter builder expects will generate around $7 billion in revenue. Located in Ellendale, North Dakota, Applied Digital's datacenter was built …

[Anonymous Coward]

Weather Proof?

Hopefully weather proof for snow and tornados.

You wouldn’t want to see the NVidia CPU units flying into the tornado all Twister(s) style ripped out of the Dorothy VI Data Center.

[Like a badger]

Re: Weather Proof?

I doubt it. Actual probability of a tornado hit on any given patch of land is minimal each year, despite the term "tornado alley". The first supposedly tornado resistance building standards didn't get published until last year and only apply to new build "critical structures" like schools and hospitals (and even then I don't know if it is mandated). Given the vast cost that would be involved in hardening a huge tin shed largely filled with air, I can't see DC builders wanting to admit critical structure status for their new bit barn. Now, when it comes to get build approval, power provision, and pork barrels, that's the time DC builders will claim to be critical infrastructure.

If tornados were a particularly common risk, then Americans wouldn't have continued to build houses in these regions to standards approved by the first two little pigs.