Ellendale first HPC facility: 100 MW, 369,000+ sq ft, liquid-cooled
Company: Applied Digital - Project: Polaris Forge 1
The claim, verbatim
The company's first 100 MW HPC facility in Ellendale, ND is a 369,000+ square-foot liquid-cooled building under construction.
Source (primary)
Earnings Release (IR page (ir.applieddigital.com), earnings_call)
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Quote: “broke ground on its first 100 MW HPC facility in Ellendale, North Dakota. The new 369,000+ square-foot building will provide ultra-low-cost and highly efficient liquid-cooled infrastructure”
How we checked this
Checked on October 13, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The release states the company broke ground on its first 100 MW HPC facility in Ellendale, ND, a 369,000+ square-foot building with liquid-cooled infrastructure, and separately says the 100 MW facility 'is currently under construction.' Every element of the claim is established, as of the January 2025 release date.
Confirmed in the source:
- Applied Digital's first HPC facility is in Ellendale, North Dakota
- The facility is 100 MW
- The building is 369,000+ square feet
- The building provides liquid-cooled infrastructure
- The 100 MW facility is currently under construction (as of the January 14, 2025 release)
What we did: Read our cached copy of IR page (ir.applieddigital.com) (https://ir.applieddigital.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/118/applied-digital-reports-fiscal-second-quarter-2025-results/) in full (35,889 characters, retrieved October 8, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Earnings Release
Quote: “broke ground on its first 100 MW HPC facility in Ellendale, North Dakota. The new 369,000+ square-foot building will provide ultra-low-cost and highly efficient liquid-cooled infrastructure”