Polaris Forge 2 campus investment
Company: Applied Digital - Project: Polaris Forge 2
The claim, verbatim
Broke ground August 18, 2025 on Polaris Forge 2, a $3 billion, 200 MW data center campus near Harwood, North Dakota.
Source (primary)
Earnings Release (IR page (ir.applieddigital.com), earnings_call)
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Quote: “On August 18, 2025, we broke ground on Polaris Forge 2, a $3 billion, 200 MW data center campus near Harwood, North Dakota.”
How we checked this
Checked on October 13, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The HPC Hosting Update section states the groundbreaking date, the $3 billion cost, the 200 MW capacity, and the Harwood, North Dakota location.
Confirmed in the source:
- Applied Digital broke ground on Polaris Forge 2 on August 18, 2025
- Polaris Forge 2 is described as a $3 billion data center campus
- Polaris Forge 2 is a 200 MW campus
- Polaris Forge 2 is located near Harwood, North Dakota
What we did: Read our cached copy of IR page (ir.applieddigital.com) (https://ir.applieddigital.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/142/applied-digital-reports-fiscal-second-quarter-2026-results/) in full (45,597 characters, retrieved October 6, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Earnings Release
Quote: “On August 18, 2025, we broke ground on Polaris Forge 2, a $3 billion, 200 MW data center campus near Harwood, North Dakota.”