First 100MW Ellendale building ready Q4 2025
Company: Applied Digital - Project: Polaris Forge 1
What the later record shows
Delivered on time · happened October 31, 2025
Later 10-Q and 10-K filings say the 100 MW CoreWeave data center at Polaris Forge 1 (Ellendale) became operational in October 2025. That is within the promised Q4 2025 window.
“The first lease is for the full capacity of our 100 MW data center that was completed and became operational in October 2025”
2026-01-07 · Applied Digital 10-Q filed 2026-01-08 View cached copy (2026-08-31)Live source ↗
“Our first HPC data center at the campus, with approximately 100 MW of critical IT load, became operational in October 2025.”
2026-07-29 · View 10-K View cached copy (2026-09-01)Live source ↗Archive.org ↗
Checked October 13, 2026 against filings, releases and reporting published after the claim was made. Quotes are verbatim from the linked documents.
The claim, verbatim
The first 100 MW data center for CoreWeave is expected to be ready for service in Q4 calendar 2025.
Source (primary)
applied-digital 8-K exhibit (ex99-2.htm) (SEC EDGAR (8-K Ex), press_release)
View cached copy (2026-10-13)Live source ↗
Quote: “Applied Digital expects the first 100 MW data center for CoreWeave to be ready for service in the fourth quarter of calendar 2025.”
How we checked this
Checked on October 15, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The release says Applied Digital expects the first 100 MW data center for CoreWeave to be ready for service in Q4 of calendar 2025.
Confirmed in the source:
- The first data center for CoreWeave is 100 MW
- It is expected to be ready for service in the fourth quarter of calendar 2025
What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (8-K Ex) (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1144879/000164117225013199/ex99-2.htm) in full (7,957 characters, retrieved October 13, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms applied-digital 8-K exhibit (ex99-2.htm)
Quote: “Applied Digital expects the first 100 MW data center for CoreWeave to be ready for service in the fourth quarter of calendar 2025.”
confirms Applied Digital 10-Q filed 2026-01-08
Quote: “The first lease is for the full capacity of our 100 MW data center that was completed and became operational in October 2025”
confirms View 10-K
Quote: “Our first HPC data center at the campus, with approximately 100 MW of critical IT load, became operational in October 2025.”