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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Applied Digital Polaris Forge 2.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Applied Digital Corporation
- Address and locality
- Harwood · Cass County · North Dakota
- Official metro area
- Fargo, ND-MN
- Source-reported status
- under construction
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 280 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-000086
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
- Cass County Electric Cooperative / Minnkota Power Cooperative
- Power source
- Grid
- Land area
- 900 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $3 billion
- Announced jobs
- 200 permanent
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
- AI-use label (provider)
- confirmed
- Announced
- August 2025
Provider notes
Energy. 280 MW peak demand; power secured through Cass County Electric Cooperative, a member-owned nonprofit, in partnership with Minnkota Power Cooperative
Community. Opposition surfaced when the project was announced (Aug 2025): environmental advocates and at least one area farmer argued Minnkota Power Cooperative member-owners (farmers, ranchers, rural residents) could see higher electric rates from the substation/powerline buildout funded to serve the data center; one resident called for a moratorium to allow more planning time. No vote, denial, or litigation reported as of 2026-03-23; the ND Public Service Commission went on to approve the power project 2026-04-29/30.
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- Cooling: Previously held pending provider-field review. The concern has not been resolved by an independent source review for this captured edition; the field remains withheld.
What the source record says
Two purpose-built facilities totaling more than 1.8 million sq ft. As of the August 2025 announcement, Applied Digital was in advanced negotiations with a U.S.-based investment-grade hyperscaler; no customer or lease value publicly confirmed. Partial operations expected end of 2026; full capacity early 2027. Coordinates are Harwood city centroid; site is approximately 900 acres near this community north of Fargo.
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
- 2025-08 · source-reported proposed
Polaris Forge 2 announced; $3B, 280 MW AI factory campus on 900+ acres near Harwood
- 2025-09 · source-reported under construction
Groundbreaking September 2025; initial operations expected end of 2026, full capacity early 2027
Sources and attribution
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- Applied Digital to Break Ground on $3 Billion Polaris Forge 2 Campus · Applied Digital Corporation
- Minnkota Power Cooperative: Data Center FAQs (Polaris Forge 2) · Minnkota Power Cooperative
- Data center developer looks west, backs power upgrades near Fargo · InForum
- Power project for AI data center gets North Dakota agency approval · Valley News Live
- Applied Digital closes $2.15B deal to build out Harwood AI campus · Valley News Live
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID applied-digital-polaris-forge-2-harwood-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 2. The licensed row remains a separate discovery record.
Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000086
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
- Harwood, ND · Cass (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 under construction
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: August 2025
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2025-08 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2025-09 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 900 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 280 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: Cass County Electric Cooperative / Minnkota Power Cooperative
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $3 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Announced jobs: 200 permanent
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: contested
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: Cooling, water, PUE and WUE · 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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