Ground broken on 100 MW Ellendale HPC facility
Company: Applied Digital - Project: Polaris Forge 1
The claim, verbatim
In fiscal Q2 the company broke ground on its first 100 MW HPC facility in Ellendale, North Dakota, a 342,000-square-foot liquid-cooled building that is currently under construction.
Source (primary)
applied-digital 8-K exhibit (apld3q24earningsrelease.htm) (SEC EDGAR (8-K Ex), press_release)
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Quote: “During the fiscal second quarter, the Company broke ground on its first 100 MW high-performance compute facility in Ellendale, North Dakota. The new 342,000-square-foot building”
How we checked this
Checked on November 10, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The release gives the fiscal Q2 groundbreaking, the 100 MW size, the Ellendale location, the 342,000-square-foot size and liquid cooling, and separately calls the 100 MW facility under construction.
Confirmed in the source:
- The company broke ground in fiscal Q2
- The project is its first 100 MW HPC facility in Ellendale, North Dakota
- The building is 342,000 square feet
- The building provides liquid-cooled infrastructure
- The 100 MW facility is under construction
What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (8-K Ex) (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1144879/000114487924000077/apld3q24earningsrelease.htm) in full (28,454 characters, retrieved November 8, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms applied-digital 8-K exhibit (apld3q24earningsrelease.htm)
Quote: “During the fiscal second quarter, the Company broke ground on its first 100 MW high-performance compute facility in Ellendale, North Dakota. The new 342,000-square-foot building”