Applied Digital Polaris Forge 1
Applied Digital Corporation · Ellendale, ND · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- OperationalSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 46.003, -98.509
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Montana-Dakota Utilities
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- 175 MW
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- 400 MW
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-28
Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.
Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.
Reported lifecycle history
- Under construction
AI factory construction begins in Ellendale
- Operational
Building 1 Phase 1 (50 MW) achieves Ready for Service for CoreWeave
Underlying source - Under construction
Building 1 fully operational at 100 MW; Buildings 2 (150 MW) and 3 (150 MW) under construction for CoreWeave
Underlying source - 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.
Underlying source
Source notes
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) had its first 75 MW phase declared Ready for Service in a July 1, 2026 release, bringing live capacity to 175 MW; 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. As of July 2026, no confirmed total campus capital-expenditure figure was 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. Applied Digital's executive vice president of public affairs and real estate acquisitions said in March 2025 that the first building was about a $1.3 billion investment for the company, with another $4 billion anticipated for the buildings, transformers, chillers and mechanical equipment; because the second amount is anticipated rather than confirmed, no investment figure is recorded. The same executive put the total capital investment on the 320-acre site at about $20 billion, which additionally counts approximately $15 billion the customer was expected to invest.
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
Sources and provenance
- Applied Digital Announces 250MW AI Data Center Lease With CoreWeave in North Dakota · source retrieved 2026-07-06
- Applied Digital completes first data center building at North Dakota campus · source retrieved 2026-07-06
- A shot in the arm for Ellendale · source retrieved 2026-07-07
- InForum — "Applied Digital plans to expand in Ellendale, ND" · source retrieved 2026-07-25
- Applied Digital Delivers Second Building at Polaris Forge 1 · source retrieved 2026-10-10
- Applied Digital adds 75MW of capacity at Ellendale data center campus in North Dakota · source retrieved 2026-10-10
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.