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Applied Digital Tech Stack

HPC and AI data center operator with proprietary cooling and rapid deployment

IT Services and IT Consulting Dallas, Texas 201–500 employees Founded 2021 Public Company

Applied Digital designs and operates purpose-built data centers for AI and HPC workloads, with a tech stack spanning infrastructure automation (Ansible, Kubernetes, Juniper, Palo Alto), network protocols (OSPF, BGP), and emerging AI tooling (LangChain, RAG, Semantic Kernel). The hiring mix is heavily weighted toward engineering and construction (30 of 35 active roles), reflecting an organization in active build mode—ground-up facility development, substation interconnection, and campus expansion dominate the project backlog. Pain points cluster around operational scale (capacity, uptime, commissioning defects) and construction execution (safety, schedule adherence), typical of a rapidly scaling physical-infrastructure company.

Tech Stack 49 technologies

Core StackActive Directory Ansible Python Power Automate ServiceNow Zapier LangChain RAG ZoomInfo NetSuite Palo Alto Networks Cisco Kubernetes Go Rust SCADA BMS SNMP Group Policy DNS DHCP PowerShell UiPath Semantic Kernel Transformers Ignition Navan OSPF BGP Juniper+19 more

What Applied Digital Is Building

Challenges

  • Reducing carbon footprint
  • Ensuring eh&s compliance
  • Improving system resiliency
  • Ensuring schedule adherence
  • Maintaining safety and quality standards
  • Scalable data center capacity
  • Reducing commissioning defects
  • Complex high-risk construction safety
  • Maintaining continuous uptime for ai workloads
  • Ensuring safe and reliable electrical infrastructure

Active Projects

  • Redevelopment or upgrade of existing properties to state-of-the-art data centers
  • Expansion of data centers and critical infrastructure
  • Predictive maintenance
  • Ground-up data center building development
  • Ground-up data center buildings
  • Data center construction and expansion projects
  • Substation and utility interconnection scope
  • Site-wide logistics planning and execution
  • Integration of new technologies
  • Ai factory campus

Hiring Activity

Accelerating35 roles · 25 in 30d

Department

Engineering
20
Construction
10
Marketing
2
Legal
1
Operations
1

Seniority

Senior
25
Manager
4
Mid
3
Director
2

Notable leadership hires: Campus Director

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About Applied Digital

Applied Digital operates next-generation data centers optimized for artificial intelligence, high-performance compute, and blockchain workloads. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, the company has grown to 201–500 employees and went public on Nasdaq (ticker: APLD). The business combines hyperscale facility design with proprietary waterless cooling technology and rapid deployment capability. Core offerings include colocation services, secure compute infrastructure, and what the company calls the Polaris Forge AI Factory model—a deployment pattern designed to serve underserved regions. The company is currently executing multiple facility development and expansion projects across the United States.

HeadquartersDallas, Texas
Company Size201–500 employees
Founded2021
Hiring MarketsUnited States

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Applied Digital's tech stack?

Infrastructure automation (Ansible, Kubernetes, Go, Rust, PowerShell, Python), network infrastructure (Juniper, Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, OSPF, BGP), facility management (SCADA, BMS, Ignition), identity and access (Active Directory, Group Policy), and emerging AI tooling (LangChain, Semantic Kernel, RAG, Transformers).

What is Applied Digital currently building?

Ground-up data center construction, facility redevelopment and upgrades, substation and utility interconnection, predictive maintenance systems, and expansion of the AI Factory campus model across multiple U.S. locations.

How this profile is built

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