Polaris Forge 1 reached 250 MW operational
Company: Applied Digital - Project: Polaris Forge 1
What the later record shows
Not a promise: a reported event · happened October 1, 2026
The claim, made on 2026-10-08, reports that Polaris Forge 1 had already reached 250 MW of operational capacity on Oct. 1. P4 states the same.
“Polaris Forge 1 reached 250 MW of operational capacity on Oct. 1, while APLD expects to place more than 600 MW into service”
2026-10-08 · Can APLD's $36B Contracted Revenue Base Drive Long-Term Growth? - TradingView View cached copy (2026-10-09)Live source ↗Archive.org ↗
“where 250 MW of critical IT load is now operational on the way to 400 MW”
2026-10-08 · What Is Applied Digital (APLD) Signaling With Its First Finland AI Factory Move? - Yahoo Finance View cached copy (2026-10-09)Live source ↗Archive.org ↗
Checked October 10, 2026 against filings, releases and reporting published after the claim was made. Quotes are verbatim from the linked documents.
The claim, verbatim
Polaris Forge 1 reached 250 MW of operational capacity on Oct. 1, 2026.
Source (primary)
Can APLD's $36B Contracted Revenue Base Drive Long-Term Growth? - TradingView (-, news_article)
View cached copy (2026-10-09)Live source ↗Archive.org ↗
Quote: “Polaris Forge 1 reached 250 MW of operational capacity on Oct. 1”
How we checked this
Checked on October 16, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article states that Polaris Forge 1 reached 250 MW of operational capacity on Oct. 1. It does not print the year next to that date, but it places it right after data as of Aug. 31, 2026, so it refers to Oct. 1, 2026.
Confirmed in the source:
- Polaris Forge 1 reached 250 MW of operational capacity
- This milestone was reached on Oct. 1, in 2026 (the article reports quarter data as of Aug. 31, 2026, and presents Oct. 1 as the subsequent date)
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.tradingview.com/news/zacks:946940ca7094b:0-can-apld-s-36b-contracted-revenue-base-drive-long-term-growth/) in full (6,763 characters, retrieved October 9, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Can APLD's $36B Contracted Revenue Base Drive Long-Term Growth? - TradingView
Quote: “Polaris Forge 1 reached 250 MW of operational capacity on Oct. 1”
confirms What Is Applied Digital (APLD) Signaling With Its First Finland AI Factory Move? - Yahoo Finance
Quote: “Polaris Forge 1 in North Dakota, where 250 MW of critical IT load is now operational”
confirms Can APLD's $36B Contracted Revenue Base Drive Long-Term Growth? - The Globe and Mail
Quote: “Polaris Forge 1 reached 250 MW of operational capacity on Oct. 1”
confirms Citizens JMP reiterates Applied Digital’s $60 target on capacity delivery - Yahoo Finance
Quote: “Applied said Polaris Forge 1 now has 250 megawatts (MW) of operational critical IT load across 10 data halls after delivering the second 75 MW phase of Building 2.”