Polaris Forge 1 Building 1 at 100 MW
Company: Applied Digital - Project: Polaris Forge 1
The claim, verbatim
The campus's first building provides 100 MW of critical IT load.
Source (primary)
Applied Digital adds 75 MW of AI capacity in North Dakota - Yahoo Finance (-, news_article)
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Quote: “Together with the campus's first 100 MW building, the completed second building accounts for the 250 MW now operational at Polaris Forge 1.”
How we checked this
Checked on October 13, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article calls the campus's first building a 100 MW building. It counts that 100 MW toward the 250 MW of critical IT load now operating at Polaris Forge 1.
Confirmed in the source:
- Polaris Forge 1's first building is a 100 MW building
- That 100 MW counts toward the campus's 250 MW of operational critical IT load, alongside Building 2's 150 MW
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/applied-digital-adds-75-mw-140100686.html) in full (7,191 characters, retrieved October 8, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Applied Digital adds 75 MW of AI capacity in North Dakota - Yahoo Finance
Quote: “Together with the campus's first 100 MW building, the completed second building accounts for the 250 MW now operational at Polaris Forge 1.”
confirms Applied Digital Activates 75 MW of AI Infrastructure at North Dakota Campus - TheEnergyMag
Quote: “The latest delivery follows the completion of the first 100 MW building at the campus.”