At Applied Digital's Ellendale, North Dakota campus, BASX is deploying bespoke free cooling chillers — optimized for cold-climate operation, reducing power demand, and requiring zero water consumption

REDMOND, Ore., June 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- BASX, a leader in advanced cooling and custom solutions for data centers and mission-critical environments, and a wholly owned subsidiary of AAON, Inc. (NASDAQ:AAON), a leading provider of high-performance, energy-efficient HVAC solutions, today announced a partnership with Applied Digital Corporation (NASDAQ:APLD) ("Applied Digital"). Applied Digital, a designer, builder, and operator of next-generation digital infrastructure designed for High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications.

As part of the collaboration, BASX designed and manufactured a customized free cooling chiller system for Applied Digital's AI factory in Ellendale, North Dakota, known as Polaris Forge 1. The system is purpose-built to meet the performance demands of AI infrastructure in a cold climate, while maximizing energy efficiency and sustainability.