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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Applied Digital Polaris Forge 1.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Applied Digital Corporation
- Address and locality
- Ellendale · Dickey County · North Dakota
- Official metro area
- Outside an official metropolitan boundary
- Source-reported status
- operational
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Operational: 100 MW; Planned: 400 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 10 October 2026
- Location precision
- approximate (provider label: exact; the provider's own note describes an approximate location)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000085
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- Montana-Dakota Utilities
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Land area
- 320 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $5.3 billion
- Community response
- Provider label: supported
- AI-use label (provider)
- confirmed
- Announced
- June 2025
Provider notes
Energy. Designed for near-zero water consumption; proprietary closed-loop direct-to-chip liquid cooling; projected PUE 1.18; campus engineered to scale to 1 GW
Water. Proprietary waterless direct-to-chip liquid cooling; WUE near zero by design
Community. Ellendale (pop. ~1,000) has welcomed the campus as a transformative economic boost; the state's R-WISH rural-workforce housing program is funding new homes for incoming workers. No documented opposition or litigation. Coverage notes workforce and housing strain as growing pains.
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- Announced permanent jobs: The source note says local jobs are reported only as projections, not confirmed headcounts, so the permanent-jobs value is not established.
- Announced construction jobs: The source note says local jobs are reported only as projections, not confirmed headcounts, so the construction-jobs value is not established.
What the source record says
Campus is 400 MW fully contracted to CoreWeave under ~15-year lease agreements valued at ~$11B total revenue. Three buildings: Building 1 (100 MW) complete Dec 2025; Building 2 (150 MW) expected mid-2026; Building 3 (150 MW) expected 2027. Coordinates are Ellendale city centroid; exact site is northeast of the city. Local jobs are reported only as projections — 'as many as 85 new jobs' (Dec 2024) and up to ~110 total local workforce at full expansion — not confirmed headcounts. No confirmed total campus capital-expenditure figure is public (the ~$11B CoreWeave figure is 15-year lease revenue, not capex); North Dakota's data-center sales-tax exemption applies but individual award amounts are statutorily confidential. investmentUsd reflects Applied Digital's own infrastructure spend (~$1.3B committed + ~$4B anticipated); the company's '$20B total campus' figure additionally counts ~$15B of customer/tenant capital.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2023 · source-reported under construction
AI factory construction begins in Ellendale
- 2025-10 · source-reported operational
Building 1 Phase 1 (50 MW) achieves Ready for Service for CoreWeave
- 2025-12 · source-reported under construction
Building 1 fully operational at 100 MW; Buildings 2 (150 MW) and 3 (150 MW) under construction for CoreWeave
- 2026-10-10 · source-reported operational
Campus has live, operational capacity and is no longer solely under construction: Building 1 (100MW) and Building 2 Phase 1 (75MW) have both reached Ready for Service, bringing total live critical IT load to 175MW against a fully-leased, 400MW CoreWeave build-out.
Sources and attribution
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- Applied Digital Announces 250MW AI Data Center Lease With CoreWeave in North Dakota · Applied Digital Corporation
- Applied Digital completes first data center building at North Dakota campus · Data Center Dynamics
- A shot in the arm for Ellendale · Northern Sentry
- InForum — "Applied Digital plans to expand in Ellendale, ND"
- Applied Digital Delivers Second Building at Polaris Forge 1 · Applied Digital Corporation (Investor Relations)
- Applied Digital adds 75MW of capacity at Ellendale data center campus in North Dakota · DatacenterDynamics
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID applied-digital-polaris-forge-1-ellendale-nd. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
Compute Atlas 1.34.1 with retained prior rows and publication holds. This is a DataCenterData composite, not an unmodified publisher edition. This row uses the captured source from 1.34.1, source as of 2026-10-14T20:40:52.293Z.
This exact source identifier is linked to Polaris Forge 1. The licensed row remains a separate discovery record.
Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000085
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): confirmed
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Ellendale, ND · Dickey (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Applied Digital Corporation
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported operational
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: June 2025
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2023 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2025-10 · source-reported operational
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2025-12 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-10-10 · source-reported operational
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 320 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Operational: 100 MW; Planned: 400 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Montana-Dakota Utilities
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $5.3 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: supported
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-10-10
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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