North Dakota ELN02 AI data center Building 1 design capacity
Company: Applied Digital - Project: Polaris Forge 1
The claim, verbatim
Building 1 of the North Dakota ELN02 AI data center is designed as a three-story 428,000 GSF building with two 50MW data halls, for 100MW of critical IT capacity, peak rack load of 120kW/rack, and peak PUE of 1.3 (annual average 1.2).
Source (primary)
applied-digital 8-K exhibit (apldraisesummit040324fin.htm) (SEC EDGAR (8-K Ex), press_release)
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Quote: “2 Data Halls – 50MW IT Load Each • Peak rack load of 120kW/rack • Peak PUE of 1.3, annual average of 1.2 ... Critical IT Capacity - 100MW Applied Digital’s North Dakota ELN02 AI Data Center”
How we checked this
Checked on November 10, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
Applied Digital's April 2024 presentation slide on its North Dakota ELN02 AI data center rendering lists every figure in the claim for Building 1. It gives three stories, 428,000 GSF, two 50MW data halls, 100MW critical IT capacity, a 120kW/rack peak and a peak PUE of 1.3 with a 1.2 annual average.
Confirmed in the source:
- Applied Digital's North Dakota ELN02 AI data center slide describes a Data Center Block, Building 1, as a typical building design
- Building 1 is designed as a three-story 428,000 GSF building
- Building 1 has 2 data halls with 50MW of IT load each
- The design lists critical IT capacity of 100MW
- The design specifies a peak rack load of 120kW per rack
- The design specifies a peak PUE of 1.3 with an annual average of 1.2
What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (8-K Ex) (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1144879/000114487924000066/apldraisesummit040324fin.htm) in full (11,985 characters, retrieved November 8, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms applied-digital 8-K exhibit (apldraisesummit040324fin.htm)
Quote: “2 Data Halls – 50MW IT Load Each • Peak rack load of 120kW/rack • Peak PUE of 1.3, annual average of 1.2 ... Critical IT Capacity - 100MW Applied Digital’s North Dakota ELN02 AI Data Center”