North Dakota · network infrastructure
PeeringDB records 6 facilities in North Dakota across 4 cities, holding 17 network presences. Fargo has thirteen of them, and 702 Communications - Fargo, ND carries eight networks on its own, more than any other building in the state. No internet exchange is recorded, so networks peer outside North Dakota.
Colocation facilities
Buildings where networks put equipment. The network count is how many PeeringDB members list a presence there.
| Facility | City | Networks present |
|---|---|---|
| 702 Communications - Fargo, ND | Fargo | 8 |
| Midco Fargo | Fargo | 3 |
| Midco Grand Forks | Grand Forks | 2 |
| DCN Dakota Carrier Networks | Fargo | 2 |
| DCN Dakota Carrier Networks Bismarck | Bismarck | 2 |
| ELN02 | Ellendale | 0 |
What a North Dakota IP address tells you
Fargo holds thirteen of North Dakota's seventeen network presences. 702 Communications - Fargo, ND accounts for eight of those, the highest count in any single building in the state, with Midco Fargo at three and DCN Dakota Carrier Networks at two. Midco Grand Forks and DCN Dakota Carrier Networks Bismarck hold two each, and the ELN02 site in Ellendale records none. The snapshot lists no internet exchange in North Dakota and zero peers, so networks here carry traffic to exchanges in other states.
An address that geolocates to North Dakota shows what the operator registered for the block rather than where the device is. AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon aggregate mobile subscribers behind regional gateways, so a phone in Bismarck can present an address a database places in another state. Four cities appear in the state's records, and the operators holding address space in them may have filed a registration address elsewhere, which is the field a geolocation service ends up reading.
Checking the origin ASN and the netname on the exact prefix is more reliable than reading a city name. Verizon's mobile traffic spans seven ASNs in this snapshot and T-Mobile's five, and one ASN can carry subscribers over a wide area. The operator publishes the registered company and address on the prefix; the state a lookup reports is worked out from those fields rather than measured.
Mobile carriers in the United States
A mobile address anywhere in North Dakota is routed by one of the country's operators. Each entry lists the operator's ASNs so you can check which network an address belongs to.
Questions
How many data centres are in North Dakota?
The snapshot lists 6 facilities across Fargo, Grand Forks, Bismarck and Ellendale. Three of them sit in Fargo and hold thirteen of the state's 17 network presences. The Ellendale site records no participating networks at all.
Is there an internet exchange in North Dakota?
No. No exchange appears in the North Dakota snapshot and the state records zero peers. Networks in Fargo, Grand Forks and Bismarck exchange traffic through transit or at exchanges outside North Dakota, so in-state traffic between two providers may leave the state first.
Can I get an IP address in North Dakota?
Placement follows the operator's address registration, not a customer's choice of state. A block reads as North Dakota because the network holding it filed a North Dakota address. Mobile ranges are usually registered once for a region wider than one state, so a device's apparent state can differ from where it is.
Sources
- PeeringDB - facilities, network presence and exchange participants, snapshot 2026-09-07
- PROXIES.SX carrier and ASN registry - the operators routing mobile addresses in this country