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HPC Ellendale 100 MW facility groundbreaking

Company: Applied Digital - Project: Polaris Forge 1

Subject kind
facility timeline
Statement date
2024-11-21
Promised amount
100.0 MW
Current status
stated

The claim, verbatim

Applied Digital broke ground on a 100 MW HPC data center project in Ellendale, ND on land adjacent to its existing 180 MW data center hosting facility.

Source (primary)

Applied Digital S-1/A filed 2024-11-22 (SEC EDGAR, sec_filing)
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Quote: “We also broke ground on a 100 MW HPC data center project in Ellendale, ND (the "HPC Ellendale Facility"), on land located adjacent to its existing 180 MW Data center hosting facility.”

How we checked this

Attempted on September 17, 2026. We could not read enough of the cited source to check this claim.

The verification run did not return a result for this claim (claude -p exit 1: b'').

What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1144879/000149315224047408/forms-1a.htm) in full (150,630 characters, retrieved August 31, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.

Additional evidence

confirms Applied Digital S-1/A filed 2024-11-22

Quote: “We also broke ground on a 100 MW HPC data center project in Ellendale, ND (the "HPC Ellendale Facility"), on land located adjacent to its existing 180 MW Data center hosting facility.”

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