HPC facility in Jamestown, North Dakota
Company: Applied Digital - Project: Jamestown
What the later record shows
The date slipped
The Jamestown HPC facility was still 'nearing completion' in January 2025, at a reduced 7.5 MW, so it was not brought online in H2 2023 as promised.
“The Company is currently building two HPC focused data centers. The first facility, which is nearing completion, is a 7.5 MW facility in Jamestown”
2024-10-21 · ARS View cached copy (2026-09-01)Live source ↗Archive.org ↗
“The first facility, which is nearing completion, is a 7.5 MW facility in Jamestown, North Dakota located adjacent to our 106 MW data center hosting facility.”
2025-01-13 · Applied Digital 10-Q filed 2025-01-14 View cached copy (2026-08-31)Live source ↗
Checked October 9, 2026 against filings, releases and reporting published after the claim was made. Quotes are verbatim from the linked documents.
The claim, verbatim
9 megawatt facility in Jamestown, North Dakota designed for GPUs and high performance computing applications expected to be brought online in the second half of calendar year 2023
Source (primary)
Applied Digital 10-K filed 2023-08-02 (SEC EDGAR, sec_filing)
View cached copy (2026-09-13)Live source ↗
Quote: “We subsequently determined to increase the capacity of this facility to 9 MW. This facility is expected to be brought online in the second half of calendar year 2023.”
How we checked this
Checked on October 11, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The 10-K states that the Jamestown facility's capacity was increased to 9 MW and that it is purpose-built for GPUs to host HPC applications. It also states the facility is expected online in the second half of calendar 2023.
Confirmed in the source:
- The facility's capacity was increased to 9 MW
- The facility is in Jamestown, North Dakota
- The facility is designed and purpose-built for GPUs
- The facility will host high performance computing applications
- The facility is expected to be brought online in the second half of calendar year 2023
What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1144879/000114487923000176/apld-20230531.htm) in full (291,995 characters, retrieved September 13, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Applied Digital 10-K filed 2023-08-02
Quote: “We subsequently determined to increase the capacity of this facility to 9 MW. This facility is expected to be brought online in the second half of calendar year 2023.”
delays Applied Digital 10-Q filed 2025-01-14
Quote: “The first facility, which is nearing completion, is a 7.5 MW facility in Jamestown, North Dakota located adjacent to our 106 MW data center hosting facility.”
delays ARS
Quote: “The Company is currently building two HPC focused data centers. The first facility, which is nearing completion, is a 7.5 MW facility in Jamestown”