ABERDEEN, S.D.(HubCityRadio)- On Tuesday, U.S. Congressman moderated a roundtable addressing the issues of AI and Data Centers.

Congressman expressed the importance of getting ahead of China on AI.

Johnson talks about an article discussing how often South Dakota uses AI compare to elsewhere around the U.S.

The panel consisted of the following:

Scott Sandal, VP of DCIM Client Services at Sunbird Software

Dr. Brent Van Aarsten, CTO at Dakota State University MadLabs

Bleau LaFave, VP of Asset Management and Business Development at Northwestern Energy

Wes Cummins, Chairman and CEO at Applied Digital

Sandal focus his presentation on the issue of power.

Sandal describe how to obtain the power needed to run data centers.

Van Aasten discuss the role DSU can play to address AI.

Van Aasten describe how that can be applied to data centers.

LaFave describe how Northwestern are working with the data centers.

LaFave react to some of the negative comments that they been hearing about the energy needed to run data centers.

Cummins describes how much power is needed to run the data center up in Ellendale.

Cummins talks about the pay for these jobs compared to normal pay for North Dakota employees.

Cummins discuss the economic impact this has had to the Ellendale community.

Cummins is looking to place data centers in South Dakota in the future.